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You got that right, PJ! | 98 comments | Create New Account
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You got that right, PJ!
Authored by: Ian Al on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 11:33 AM EDT
I knew that the EU did not permit software patents and I thought that the EU position would extend to the UK courts. I knew that the European Patent Office issued software patents, but I thought they were not recognised by the English courts. The UK patent office is the official government institution issuing patents.

The European Patent Office was set up to administer the European Patent Convention. However, the convention was not widely signed. Unfortunately, the signatories that they were able to get do accept the EPO Patents, including the UK.

Now look at what Computer World in New Zealand had to say in the thread just below this one.
These two words ‘as such’ are more important than you might think. They’re kind of like the two words you might find on a Tui billboard. Following decades of legal wrangling in Europe, the European Patent Office (which is responsible for – and makes money from – the issuing of patents) determined that those two words basically mean that while computer programs as such aren't patentable, anything that is implemented in or by a computer program is. Say what?

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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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