From Robert.Bielik@gyrosmicro.com  Tue Dec 12 08:21:11 2000
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:21:11 +0100
From: Robert Bielik Robert.Bielik@gyrosmicro.com
Subject: [Patents] RE: Patents digest, Vol 1 #365 - 10 msgs

Greg Aharonian wrote:

>So Hartmut's proposal sounds like a lawyer's dream - to get a
>software patent, you have to fill your patent application with
>pages of examples of uses outside the realm of programming, which
>doesn't nothing to help others understand the algorithm or apply
>it themselves. 

Apply it ? Wouldn't that be infringement of the patent with your view of SW
patents? 

That is why Hartmut's proposal is better because it would make a "software"
patent valid in a 
single application making it possible for others to use it elsewhere thereby

promoting progress. Which is what was intended with patents, was it not ?

Regards
/Robert Bielik




