[Patents] "fork vs leaves" or "worlds 1, 2, 3"

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

> > Today, patent inflationists lump worlds 1 and 3 together as a world of
> > objectivised solutions, i.e. "practical and repeatable solutions"
> >
> >     Mark Schar 1998 "What is Technical?"
> >     http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/grur-schar98/

Oops, sorry

> >     http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/jwip-schar98/

Not all important law doctrine articles are in GRUR (association and
magazine of the IP community in Germany, has also functioned as a
patent inflation pressure group, influencing the opinion of judges
who tended to be more "conservative")

> I didn't find that page, was it possibly
> http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/grur-schoelch01/
> you were referring to?
> A page I considered to be absurd, even though I didn't understood
> every word.

What is absurd about it is only that it is so short.
Mr. Schoelch, a patent examiner from the German Office, actually did quite
a good job at showing the logical flaws and dangerous consequences of
software patents.  For GRUR, this is a rather exceptional article.
But anything that is published in GRUR is kind of a leaf --- we can't
republish it in digital form until 70 years later.

Another article by a junior colleague of Mr. Schoelch was not published in
GRUR, which made it possible for us to put it on the Net and provide an
English translation:

        http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/patpruef/

This article is even more sharp and uncompassionate in showing the
flaws in patent inflationist reasoning, and the author writes partially
from the perspective of a (former) professional programmer.

-phm