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

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:52, old.timer@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> But that's not what it means to me.  For example, a single apple is an apple
> "as such".  But a bowl of mixed fruit with an apple in it cannot be called
> an apple "as such" - not by any stretch of the imagination.

Of course not. That's a bowl of mixed fruit that happens to have an
apple in it.

> A computer program may well be a computer program "as such", but an 
> invention
> that involves (among other things) a computer program cannot be a computer
> program "as such".

But that is still not a computer program, but an invention comprising of
mixed stuff that happens to also have software in it.

The software part is not an invention and should never be patentable.

Rui

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