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- From: Francois Desarmenien <francois@fdesar.net>
- To: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>
- Cc: C-FIT_Community@RealMeasures.dyndns.org, C-FIT_Release_Community@RealMeasures.dyndns.org, fairuse-discuss@nyfairuse.org, patents@aful.org, DMCA_Discuss@lists.microshaft.org, DMCA-Activists@gnu.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] The Economist on Software Patents in Europe
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 19:05:52 +0200
> Arlene McCarthy, the rapporteur of the European Parliament's committee for
> legal affairs and the internal market, has now proposed an additional test
> for patentability: an invention must teach a new way to use _controllable
> forces of nature_ (really) and have an _industrial application_. This aims
> to strengthen the exclusion of pure software and business methods.
Electrons running through CPU and memories ARE, by definition, a controllable
forces of nature (even if in fact they are more or less really controlled :) !
And so, isn't an office suite (software) and industrial application
(industrially put on CR-ROM and sold out) of a controllable force of nature ?
This doesn't make more sense. Except to proove that A.M. hasn't (or has too
well) understood the challenge on software patents...
We're simply wheeling around, AMHA...
F.
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