Amendment 1
Article 1

This Directive lays down rules for the patentability of computer-implemented inventions.	This directive lays down the rules concerning the patentability of computer-aided inventions.	

Amendment 3
Article 2(b)

(b) “technical contribution” means a contribution to the state of the art in a field of technology which is new and not obvious to a person skilled in the art. The technical contribution shall be assessed by consideration of the difference betweenthe state of the art and the scope of the patent claim considered as a whole, which must comprise technical features, irrespective of whether or not these are accompanied by non-technical features	(b) “technical contribution” means a contribution to the state of the art in a field of technology. The contribution is the set of features by which the scope of the patent claim as a whole is considered to differ from the state of the art. The contribution must be technical, that is,comprise technical features and belong to a field of technology. Without a technical contribution, there is no patentable subject-matter and no invention. The technical contribution must fulfil the conditions for patentability. In particular, it must be novel and not obvious to a person skilled in the art.	

Amendment 4
Article 2(ba) (new)

	(ba) a “field of technology” is a field of applied natural science;	

Amendment 6
Article 3

In order to be patentable, a computer-implemented invention must be susceptible of industrial application and new and must involve an inventive step. In order to involve an inventive step, a computer-implemented invention must make a technical contribution.	In order to be patentable, a computer-aided invention must make a technical contribution. The technical contribution must be new and not obvious to the person skilled in the art.	

Amendment 7
Article 4 paragraph 1

1. A computer program as such cannot constitute a patentable invention.	1. While products and processes in all fields of technology are patentable inventions regardless of whether or not they involve computer programs, the subject matter and activities within the computer programs are not patentable on their own.	

Amendment 8
Article 4 paragraph 2

2. A computer-implemented invention shall not be regarded as making a technical contribution merely because it involves the use of a computer, network or other programmable apparatus. Accordingly, inventions involving computer programs, whether expressed as source code, as object code or in any other form, which implement business, mathematical or other methods and do not produce any technical effects beyond the normal physical interactions between a program and the computer, network or other programmable apparatus in which it is run shall not be patentable.	 . A computer-aided invention shall not be regarded as making a technical contribution merely because it uses better algorithms so as to reduce the need for processing time, storage space or other resources within the data processing system.  Accordingly, innovations involving computer programs which do not solve any problems of applied natural science beyond the improvement of data processing efficiency shall not be patentable.	

Amendment 9
Article 5 paragraph 2

2. A claim to a computer program, either on its own or on a carrier, shall not be allowed unless that program would, when loaded and executed in a programmable computer, programmable computer network or other programmable apparatus, put into force a product or process claimed in the same patent application in accordance with paragraph 1.	2. A patent claim to a computer program, either on its own or on a carrier, shall not be allowed.