Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far'

[Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 14:53, old.timer@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> The answers to Seth's questions are simple enough.
> 
> 1) Because it (the EPO) is required to by the European Patent Convention
> and the WTO TRIPS agreement.  And,

We need a PO Office, not necessarily the EPO :-)

> 2) Yes, software has always been patentable in Europe.

but the EPC claim that software as such is not patentable ... seem there
is a problem beetwen what the EPO grants and what the EPC state.
And I'm pretty sure software was not patentable before the '90s

Simo.

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