Re: [Patents] IBM Patent release

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> 
> On 24 jan 2005, at 09:23, Nari Lee wrote:
> 
> > or why IBM is doing this "really"?


They are acting now, because the SW Patent Directive is under
very effective fire, to attempt to coopt one constituency (the
free software constituency) -- and most importantly, in that
process of acting out a grant of rights, to inject a claim of
ownership.  At bottom, its an assertion of the property notion
under the guise of magnanimity.

IBM (and Teufel) is probably most responsible for the EPO's
ridiculous jurisprudence.  See this case: 
http://legal.european-patent-office.org/dg3/biblio/t970935eu1.htm


Seth




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