Re: [Patents] more misinformation from McCarthy

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 16:20, Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> > The committee's first-reading report, drafted by Arlene McCARTHY (PES,
> > UK), was adopted by 20 votes to 8 with 1 abstention.
> > Computer-implemented inventions do not cover computer software programs as
> > such, but only devices like mobile phones, intelligent household
> > appliances, engine control devices, machine tools and computer program
> > related inventions.
> 
> The latter is just an equivalent of "computer programs as such".

Worse... 'computer program related inventions' seems to be there with
the exact meaning of 'etcetera' giving that list a perfectly bogus
sentence subject to subjective interpretation.

Rui
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