[Patents] patents on ITU-proposals (g.723.1)

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

> Sorry, but if you are going to assert such unsubstantiated reasoning,
> you leave me no choice but to point out to that most people on both
> sides of the atlantic, that most clear concepts of technical invention
> include software patents.  I like the thought that software turns a
> general purpose machine into a specific purpose machine, the
> combination of which always achieves a technical effect.

There is only one concept of technical invention, i.e. the one elaborated
in most detail by German courts in the 70/80s.  Considerations of
"technical effect" have no place in that concept.

Judging from your earlier writings I had thought you had made some
progress, but I must withdraw that conclusion, I fear.

For reading on "technical invention", refer to

        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/korcu/

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