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- From: Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.org>
- To: Jacek Gancarson Eurofresh <jacek.gancarson@eurofresh.se>
- Cc: James Heald <j.heald@ucl.ac.uk>, patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] CPTech submission to PCT reform working group
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 22:58:27 +0200
El Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:41:08AM +0200, Jacek Gancarson Eurofresh deia:
> Hi
>
> CPTech has made good job: They made a serious effort to understand and
> describe the praxis in the field of patent cooperation:
>
Then at least they have failed to communicate their understanding to me.
>
> The earlier focus on software is exaggerating here on this list: Code
> coping, reverse engineering, free use of art production is not the subject
> of this list.
>
I don't understand. It's all about being unable to deal with software
you have written yourself...
>
> The subject of this list is to find up-to-date patenting criteria and praxis
> because without it we will suffer unpredicted and unsuspected conflicts and
> crises in business and industries worldwide. The problem is poor linguistic
> and technical competence of patent offices in recognition of previous art
> and content of patent claims. So why the common praxis became to reduce the
> patentability criteria to legal correctness of submitted applications, and
> to skip an up-to-date technical analysis.
>
Can you explain to me why a software patent for some non-obvious and new idea
would be good or desirable ?
>
> On the US *single communication market* the discussion shifted rather fast
> from software patent issues to general patenting issues. It simply took less
> time there to get the point in the whole matter. In Europe we are somehow
> lost half way, fighting to death on software patenting.
>
On the US there is people who understand that software patenting is a
problem.
Apparently (from a distance) there's more people seeing the symptoms than
the disease.
Pretending to solve software patents with good examination of prior art
and obviousness is like pretending to fix a program error with 2>/dev/null
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