From ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es  Mon Apr  2 09:58:45 2001
From: ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es (Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:58:45 +0200
Subject: [Patents] French State secretary for Industry against SoftPat
In-Reply-To: <1225925273-51951315@away.fr>; from pb@breese.fr on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:43:00AM +0200
References: <1225925273-51951315@away.fr>
Message-ID: <20010402105845.A17825@jl1.quim.ucm.es>

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:43:00AM +0200, Pierre Breese wrote:
> > So are you in favour of the patentability of easy ideas that have no
> > significant effort behind?
> >
> No, only for inventions (and not ideas) respecting criterias of patentability.

I use the word idea with the meaning of "I have an idea: let us do
...", not in the sense of abstract ideas. I insist in my point: are
you in favour of the patentability of easy methods/inventions/ideas/...?

The legal criterion of "non-obvious"/"inventive step" means that as soon
as there is something creative one has the right to patent. This produces
an unbalanced situation between the (unexistent) research effort and the
monopoly granted for most software patents.

Ramon


