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I just added a cleanup tag to this page because some of the grammar and phrasing still needs to be fixed (I've done a little work but not enough), links to other Wikipedia articles need to be made within the text, and the article leaves off in the middle of a sentence (and has left off in the middle of that sentence since its creation). There's also probably a better way to organize it... I'll let someone else take a stab at that though. ;) Hbackman22:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I've returned the trivia-section with Van Gorsel's religion and spoken languages. The edit produced in ingrammatical sentence and removed a feature of many dutch politicians bio's.C mon22:41, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This sentence is misleading "she [was appointed draftsperson for the Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions and] proposed an amendment for a 'grace period' which would have brought EU patent practice in the field of software patent closer to the US practice of "first to invent" as opposed to the EU practice of "first to file"." The first-to-invent system in the U.S. is applicable to any invention, whatever its field (mechanics, chemistry, IT, etc.). It is therefore quite misleading to write that these two topics "software patents" and "first-to-file vs first-to-invent" would be in any way linked... --Edcolins (talk) 21:41, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
