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- From: Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
- To: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>, 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 20:14:46 +0200
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:59:59AM -0400, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> >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.
The point is accurately analysed by Hartmut Pilch and others.
I stand by my statement. EPO is dishonest.
Bernard
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