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- From: "Seth Johnson" <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>
- To: srctran@world.std.com, patents@aful.org, old.timer@tiscali.co.uk, Bernard.Lang@inria.fr
- Subject: Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far'
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:58:24 -0400
LOL
"As such" means software is something different.
I know it's hard for you to accept.
Seth Johnson
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:59:59 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far'
> >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
>
- Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far', (continued)
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