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- From: Jean-Jacques de Jong <jjdj@free.fr>
- To: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] myths & lies
- Date: 15 Jun 2002 00:02:46 +0200
Le ven 14/06/2002 à 23:05, PILCH Hartmut a écrit :
> > No, everything changed with the State Street decision in 1998. You don't
> > even have the Freeman-Walter-Abele criterion anymore and since then the
> > USPTO is flooded with patent applications.
>
> Are you sure about that?
>
> Swpat have been granted for quite a long time, and many very broad and
> ridiculous ones (e.g. hyperlink) are not new. Yet there has been an
> explosion in the last few years, especially since the mid nineties.
Indeed, the State Street decision is a landmark decision for business
method patents, not software patents.
JJJ
- Re: [Patents] US patent reform strategy inaugurated by myths & lies, (continued)
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