[Patents] influence of Dispositionsprogramm decision today

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

> > BGH decision "Dispositionsprogramm" 1976
> >     http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/bgh-dispo76/indexen.html
> >
>
> Thank you for sharing but I don't think it changes U.S. practice.

Nor current BGH practise, unfortunately.
I just used it to show you that the reasoning behind the exclusion of
software patents cannot be refuted by arguments about software-hardware
equivalence or other common fallacies, btw including those of our
mailing list's host, found under

        http://www.ipjur.com/01.php3

When somewhere in the world a court has shown capable of putting forward a
well-thought and well-worded reasoning, that has a potential influence on
all those who are messing around with poorer reasoning.

Martin Luther King is sometimes quoted as saying

        Injustice somewhere endangers justice everywhere.

Likewise it can be said

        Truth somewhere endangers ignorance everywhere.

Which is also why some people are very eager to appeal to our Lemming
instinct.

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