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- From: Edward Avis epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk
- Subject: [Patents] Technical effect
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:58:35 +0100 (BST)
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 patents-request@liberte.aful.org wrote:
>From: "Stephen Probert" <stephenprobert@hotmail.com>
>The UK Patent Office does grant patents for computer programs,
>provided that the program is capable of producing a technical effect
>when run on a computer.
Every program from Hello World onwards produces a technical effect when
run on a computer.
Or could you give the UK Patent Office's definition of techincal effect?
>The UK Patent Office does not grant patents for methods of doing
>business whatever the technical advance may be, because that is what the
>Courts in the UK have decided.
Do you mean to say that Amazon's one-click patent would not have been
granted by the UK Patent Office?
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Ed Avis
epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk
- [Patents] Technical effect, Edward Avis epa98
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