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

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

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:44, Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
> The words
> "as such" used in part 3 simply means that the items described in part 2
> can't be patented when they are alone but that it is still possible to
> patent an invention that would make some use of them.

To Patent: the invention that makes some use of something

IS NOT EQUAL

To Patent: that invention including that something

The later is what's happening and what the EPO has been perverting the
law into.

You should probably be able to patent an invention, should it have
enough merit, but the 'something' in this case is software, which is not
patentable as per Art. 52.2 of the European Patent Convention.

THAT PART is not patentable. But you can try to patent the rest,
probably.

Rui

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