[Patents] Software Patents and inernet spreading

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr> (Bernard Lang)]

That is why we need support groups in all countries.

Cordialement

  Bernard Lang


On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:09:09AM +0200, Wagner Jean-Jacques wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> I might come with a humble opinion regarding software patent. Reading at
> this (french) document, once ought to ask ourselves whether the European
> action against software will lead us in a dead end.
> 
> http://uspatentinfo.com/busmethod-FR.html
> 
> I feel there is a lot of effort too, for preventing the use of business
> methode world wide and especially over internet.
> 
> In Europe we know the rule, which permits to use a patented device embarked
> on a vehicle without to be worry about infringement while driving in a
> foreign country.
> 
> Will the same rule be applied in the field of software and business method
> patent, especially on internet?
> 
> There might be two cases to consider:
> a- use of a business methode, which might be inadvertently used
>    or view through an US person.
> b- objective use of a patented business methode over internet
>    from a foreign country.
> 
> Borth cases fall within  infringement, because of export of patented good.
> 
> What's happen here seems to me to be a big thread about doing business world
> wide. 
> 
> When the US want to forces us to introduce software patent, I hope that the
> European will be clever enough to trade it at least with the Kyoto agreement
> about environment.
> 
> 
> What does the oponents say regarding patenting software and business method
> in regard of the above said?
> 
> sincerely
> Jean-Jacques Wagner
> 
> 
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