Re: [Patents] UK gov applying for business method patents

[Erik Josefsson <erikjosefsson@telia.com>]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:21:10 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
> To: epo@mlist.austria.eu.net
> Subject: Is UK government for or against business method patents?

> This is a pure business method patent (whatever technology is thrown
> into the claims to overcome the bogus semantic test of "technical"). 
> So if the UK Patent Office is going to outright reject such patent
> applications, why is the UK Ministry of Defense wasting taxpayers'
> monies filing such applications.  Unless business method patents are
> allowed.  Or not.

Anyone reading swedish should study the ambition to pass "the bogus
semantic test of "technical"" made by patent lawyer Ragnar Lundgren to
appeal the rejection of the patent application:

AN AUTOMATED EXCHANGE FOR MATCHING BIDS BETWEEN A PARTY AND A
COUNTERPARTY BASED ON A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COUNTERPARTY AND THE
EXCHANGE

http://l2.espacenet.com/espacenet/viewer?PN=WO0028449

The application was rejected by the Swedish Patent Office and the
Swedish Court of Patent Appeals:

http://www.blipp.com/pawal/prv/20021107/

Now the swedish stock market owner OM Technology AB (representative
Ragnar Lundgren) wants the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court to
reconsider:

http://www.blipp.com/pawal/prv/20030208/

Arguing that the invention indeed is technical.

//Erik