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- From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
- Subject: [Patents] translation of historical documents
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:32:40 +0100 (CET)
> >You can of course also sponsor the translation of the BPatG decision
> >of Aug 2000, of which I have a full text copy.
>
> Two questions. How many words (and therefore what is the approximate
> cost)?
400 lines of 55 chars, translating costs about 400 USD.
We pay half if you pay half.
> And, does this decision provide a good representation of the
> German court's attitudes towards software patents.
It is very current and it restates the traditional theories found in the
1976 decision as well as in patent law commentaries such as that of
Benkard of 1988.
The only difference is that the court didn't use the theories to decide
whether the present "invention" (IBM methode for finding faulty strings in
a text) was "technical" but only to explain why subclaims to a "computer
program product" and a "computer program" as granted by the EPO are not
permissible and why the EPO's reasoning is wrong. The main claim was not
an issue.
-phm
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