[Patents] Patnews on Pierret

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

Greg trolls:

> > Economic arguments for/against weak/strong protection of IP crucially
> >depend on the nature of the industry.
>
> I agree.  Which is why I keep on arguing that the patentability of
> hardware and the patentability of software should be equivalent, both
> for the logical legal reasons, and for the economic reasons that
> increasingly the use and exploitation of IP in hardware and software
> is the same, for example, in a world of hardware/software codesign
> tools.

1 the question is not about similarity of IP use but similarity of
  IP effects on innovation
2 hardware is not patentable according to European law
  only technical inventions are

[ lemming march prophesies and other bragging deleted ]

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