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- From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
- Subject: [Patents] Re: [FYI] (Fwd) PATNEWS: Horrible ecommerce patent claim
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:26:05 +0200 (CEST)
> Greg reported in Patnews:
>
> > An administrative board for the European Patents Office has voted 10-9
> > to allow patents for software in Europe, with a final decision coming
>
> I think Greg got it completely wrong. The vote was
Sorry, I was wrong and Greg was probably right.
> 10 for unlimited patentability
> 9 for unlimited patentability with contradictory exceptions
> remaining in the law for cosmetic purposes, but software
> explicitely patentable
>From my latest information, it seems that 9 countries, at the initiative
of DE+FR+UK, did vote to keep 52.2c preliminarily unchanged, but agreed to
change 52.1 to include the universality clause "in all fields of
technology, if they ...", which would give the EPO's main excuse for
patenting software a legal validity which it so far doesn't have.
But I don't have any written confirmation of either rumor.
-phm
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