Re: [Patents] [belinda.don@scottishtories.org.uk: EU Software Patent Directive]

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> Attached the complete reply from MEP Struan Stevenson.

Thanks.

It is evidently copy&pasted from MEP Malcolm Harbour.

You could send him the two example patent claims (e.g. runlength coding,
internet sales system) from

        http://swpat.ffii.org/analysis/testsuite/

and press for an answer as to whether these are to be considered
patentable inventions according to the tory (harbour) proposal.

They are definitely in the field of "general software patents" or however
he called it.

Quote

        http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/wuesthoff-bm01/

(written not by anti-swpat lobbyists but patent lawyers with high ratings
in UK) and ask him which business method patents he wants to exclude.

Also, phone his office to find out to what extent they may be willing to
use their brain, of course using a more polite manner of expression than I
am using now.

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