From phm@a2e.de  Tue Dec 19 10:42:29 2000
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:42:29 +0100 (CET)
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] regulation draft proposal: revision

> >... A "computer program with a further technical effect" belongs to
> >... the category of computer programs and hence also of "computer
> >... programs as such", whatever that may mean in the absence of a
> >... proper syntactic context.
> 
> You might want to change "syntactic" to "semantic", since that is
> the key issue - what do these words mean.  

a "syntactic context" ist a "sentence context".
I am not using the word in a narrow sense of a certain theory of syntax.

> In short, trying to win these arguments with word games like your
> statement 2) is easily frustrated with word games from your opponents.

Apparently, you are a professional of the "novelty and non-obviousness"
wordgame.  But sorry, I don't want to play your wordgame.

-phm





