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- From: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- To: patents@aful.org, old.timer@tiscali.co.uk, Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far'
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:59:59 -0400 (EDT)
>and patenting software is explicitly prohibited in article 52.2 of the
>EPC ... even though illegal EPO jurisprudence is trying to distort the
>law.
The EPC only prohibits patents on software "as such". Since the EPC says
nothing on what "as such" means, the signers of the EPC left it to the
EPO to determine how to implement such a completely ambiguous law. EPO
may have done so poorly in your eyes, but not illegally.
Greg
Aharonian
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