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

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

Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
> 
> Don't take it wrong, I also think that these patents granted by the EPO
> would not be valid in front of a court but you can't just assert it! The
> new text is more clear on that point but the same exceptions are still
> there and they will be used in the same way as long as we won't get
> judges and politics to understand that there is a consensus about the
> fact that softwares are not patentable.


Ah yes!

"As such" means software is something different.

:-)


Seth



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