Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> UK patent rules put firms at disadvantage
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| "The UK IPO's position is that only when the patented item and its software
>| are combined, when you are dealing with the whole package, are they offered
>| protection," he told us.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/16/patent_wrangling/
>
Sooner or later, someone is going to listen. Let's try again, folks:
"Software patents are only valid in NAFTA and Australia." Nowhere else
has seen fit to hand over their soveignty to the US on this issue.
>
> Related:
>
> British Government Comes Out Against 'Pure' Software Patents
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The answer is reassuring but perhaps doesn't go far enough, and gives
>| no specific promises to bring into line a patent office that grants
>| software patents (according to the petition) 'against the letter
>| and the spirit of the law'.
> `----
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/27/152246&from=rss
>
>
> UK firms contest 'absurd' software patent ruling
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The five companies, Astron Clinica Limited, Cyan Holdings Plc,
>| Inrotis Technologies Limited, Software 2000 Limited and Surf
>| Kitchen argue variously that the IPO is stifling British
>| entrepreneurship, forcing UK firms to apply for patents
>| outside the UK, and putting British inventors at a disadvantage.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/29/legal_patent_challenge/
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