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- From: James Heald <j.heald@ucl.ac.uk>
- To: Richard Page <richard_page@dsl.pipex.com>
- Cc: Patent Forum <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Patents] Dreadful Guardian Article]
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:45:00 +0000
Richard Page wrote:
The interesting point in all these documents is that they insist that
the directive has nothing to do with software.
This was also McGann's line, expressed very forcefully, at the meeting
of Conservative bloc MEPs last Tuesday.
Paraphrasing:
-- "We represent the whole industry. Not one of our members wants
software patents. That's why we support the Council text. But the
parliament amendments would cripple the whole industry".
However, when asked specifically whether or not a new algorithm which
allowed a square roots to be calculated more quickly (ie the UK case
"Gale's application") was a software patent, he said he was unable to
speak for his members on that point...
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