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- From: Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>
- To: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- Cc: 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 18:54:42 +0200
- Organization: Xsec s.r.l.
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 16:59, 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.
I think what matter is the spirit of the law, not how skillfull you are
in twisting words ...
Simo.
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- Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far', (continued)
Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far',
Bernard Lang
Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far',
Simo Sorce
Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far', Simo Sorce
Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far',
Seth Johnson
Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far',
Seth Johnson
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