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

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>]

Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
> 
> What we see now is just the normal process of the birth of legislation.
> People have opposed views, some are fair and some are unfair but they
> tend to get closer in the end until everybody find a good in-between
> solution. It's just not the job of computer scientists to write law and
> it's not the job of jurists to understand computer science. Both
> interact on each other and the only thing needed is communication and
> explanations.


The Commission's Directive on "computer-implemented inventions" would have
codified the practice of the EPO into law.  You aren't addressing the
question:

1) Is software patentable in the first place?
2) Why is the EPO granting software patents?

Seth


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