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From: Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>
To: Jean-Baptiste Soufron <jbsoufron@free.fr>
Cc: patents@aful.org
Subject: Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far'
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:38:16 +0200
Organization: Xsec s.r.l.

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 12:49, Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:

> So, according to the EPO, any invention is patentable but, as an
> exception, programs for computers are not inventions and thus, they
> can't be
> patented. But, there is an exception to the exception : a program for
> computer is not an invention only when it's considered alone. It still
> is patentable when it's part of another invention.

Yes, but then can you explain me what need to be the nature of the rest
of the invention please?
And when part of the other invention does it mean that one infringes
only when the whole invention (sw + the other part that you should
enlight me what it is base don) is reimplemented, but not the single
parts of it?

Simo.

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