Re: [Patents] Finnish organisations against CEC/BSA DirectiveProposal

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>]

I'm very curious about this.  I lost track on this front;
did it all ultimately appear to fall into place on the force
of the decision to allow business method patents?  Was it
really up in the air until that decision, and was it not
that that decision was the one that made it an apparent fait
accompli?  Anybody care to enumerate the cases that
constitute the case law legal foundation for software
patents in America?

Seth Johnson

Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> 
> The following is a false history of American patent policy:
> >"Software patenting legislation in the United States was pushed
> >through by powerful lobby groups in the 1980s, with almost no
> >public discussion.   ..., says Mikko Valimaki, chairman of EFFi.
> 
> Wrong.  Software patenting for the most part in America is a
> judicially determined policy, that is, a series of decisions from
> the US Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit in the 1980s and
> 1990s gradually opened up all of software to patenting.
> 
> I hope the rest of your arguments are less false.
> 
> Greg Aharonian

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