In article <iritr4-5h7.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>, "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well naturally. It doesn't take a solicitor ("top" or otherwise) to
> realise that software patent infringement threats have no bearing, in a
> country which does not recognise software patents.
And what country would that be? Not the UK, as the UK patent office has
issued, and continues to issue, software patents, and the UK legal
system has enforced software patents.
In fact, if you go read the article Roy linked to, you'll find that the
solicitor said is this:
But a leading lawyer, speaking in London on Wednesday, said that
those patents do not cover the UK.
"Microsoft's claims are based on US law, which has no application in
the UK," said Andrew Katz, a solicitor at Moorcrofts, a Thames
Valley-based firm specialising in technology law.
Katz said that Microsoft only has 51 patent applications in the UK,
including several failed and pending applications. By contrast, the
company has 7,336 patents, and applications for 10,761 more, in the
US.
"The possibility of infringement is vastly smaller in the UK," said
Katz.
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--Tim Smith
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