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

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>]

as you may have noticed, old timer is better known under the name
"anonymous coward".


On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:00:52PM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 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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