Re: [Patents] "condition of ..." amendment

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

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:04, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> "...... "technical contribution" .......   "technical character" .....
> 
> Again, where in Europe is a rigorous definition of "technical"?
> Neither the EPO Board of Appeals has provided one (as they admitted
> in the Pension Patent decision), nor have their colleagues along
> nearby in the German courts (the Pensions decision mentions this
> lack of German definition as well).
> 
> So I put forth mine.  "Technical" is any "applied science" where a
> physical quantity is involved.  Well, in physics, information is a
> physical quantity, so applied information processing, both software
> and hardware, is "technical".  And therefore patentable.

You have got to be either kidding or inhuman (I'm betting on the later).

Where in the world outside your autism is information a physical
quantity, even in physics?

Please, point us to serious studies where that happens or shut up with
your deceits.

Rui
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+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
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