Re: [Patents] draft call on europe's lawmakers

["Benjamin Henrion" <bh@udev.org>]

Manipulating numbers is probably not an industrial application.

Some people tries to reinterpret what is an "industrial application"
by "anything that you can sell".

There should be some documentation in the proceedings of the Paris
Convention of 1936 about what is "industrial application" means.

I will try to find more about this.

On 11/13/06, Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com> wrote:
> >We call on Europe's lawmakers to ensure that
> >    1. The European Patent Office [8]stop granting patents on software and
> >       business methods, stop lobbying for its supposedly independent
> >       judicial arm, and start following the lead of the national courts
> >       and the European Parliament;
>
> As I recall, most of the national legislatures of Europe have approved the
> TRIPS treaty.  TRIPS has a clause that if something is patentable as a
> technology in any TRIPS member state, then all other TRIPS member states
> have to provide such patent protection.  This is now the law of the land
> of most European countries, done with the approval of their legislatures.
>
> In TRIPS member country - the United States - software and business methods
> are fully technical (an assertion fully supported by tons of computer
> science and economics research in Europe).  Therefore under TRIPS,
> European countries are acting illegally in denying such patent protection.
> At some point, this TRIPS defense will be raised in the European courts.
>
> Don't you think you should lead a fight to call for the repeal of this
> clause of TRIPS?
>
> Greg Aharonian
>
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