From steve.probert@patent.gov.uk  Tue Dec 19 10:38:58 2000
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:38:58 +0000
From: Steve Probert steve.probert@patent.gov.uk
Subject: [Patents] monopoly/publicity contradiction?

PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> ...This is also why this talk about "not the programs as such but only
> the technical solution" is nonsense, unless "technical solution" refers to
> something different than a programming solution, both at a conceptual and
> at a practical level, as explained in the Eurolinux regulation proposal.

I think we will have to agree to differ.


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Steve Probert
Deputy Director
The Patent Office




