Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: [News] Software Patents Go Ahead in the States

begin  oe_protect.scr 
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> New U.S. system to review software patents
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| "High-quality patents increase certainty around intellectual property
>| rights, reducing contention and freeing resources to focus on
>| innovation," said David Kappos, vice president of IP law at IBM.
>| 
>| Red Hat chief patent counsel Adam Avrunin said finding references
>| that show the subject matter of a patent application is already
>| known, especially in the software field, is often troublesome for
>| examiners at the Patent Office who have a duty to grant patents
>| only to inventive technologies. 
> `----
> 
> http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/01/content_5276621.htm
> 
> IMO, only in America can algorithms become patentable.

Not correct... the Australians were bullied by the US into accepting the
same terms in order to get some kind of free-trade deal.  I have to say
that I was disgusted with the Oz government for caving into such
pressure, but presumably a lot of people are planning to trouser a lot
of cash, so they don't really care about what happens to Australia in
the long run.

> 
> Appeal court ruling sets marker on UK software patents
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The three judges of the UK Court of Appeal have ruled decisively
>| that patents on pure computer programs may not be granted in the
>| UK. The ruling came in the case of Macrossan vs the UK Patent
>| Office (UKPO).
> `----
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/27/software_patents/
> 

We need Magna Carta 2, I think.  Although Magna Carta 1 did the rounds,
and much of the world followed its lead, the way seems to have been
lost, as only the interests of a very powerful few are being recognised
by the latest rounds of legislation regarding "rights".  DRM and Software
Patents are the clearest examples of this trend, but the continued
extensions to copyright periods are also a similar example.

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good.  I know better.  The things
I worry about don't happen.
		-- Watchman Examiner

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index