Re: [Patents] Australia to reject ban on business method patents

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> The recommendation was made by the Advisory Council on Intellectual
> Property (ACIP). The Council, an independent body appointed by the
> government, released its report into patenting business methods last
> week.

It would be interesting to have a pointer to ACIP and the original of the 
report.

Judging from the news article, the report reminds me strongly of that 
on software patents ordered by CEC in 2000 from the "Intellectual 
Property Institute" in London

        http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/indprop-ipi00/

In short: a deep belief that socialism will be victorious if only given 
enough time, combined with unfulfillable requirements to anyone who wants 
to falsify this claim.  No evidence anyone might supply may ever be deemed 
rigid enough.  The main argumentation of course relies on words such as 
"this new technology", which preclude the results of the discussion before 
the questions are even asked.


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