____/ Mentohl on Thursday 24 April 2008 20:35 : \____
> "The European Patent Organisation (EPO) is continuing to grant thousands
> of monopolies on “computer-implemented” algorithms and business methods
> every year, against the letter and spirit of the written law"
>
> http://eupat.ffii.org/
>
> Accordingly, CIIs can be patented if:
>
> * They have technical character and solve a technical problem.
> * They are new.
> * They involve an inventive technical contribution to the prior art.
>
> "computer programs, which do not solve a technical problem, are not
> patentable in Europe"
>
> "On the flip side, the problem of improving signal strengths between
> mobile phones is a technical problem .. Such an invention would obtain a
> patent, provided that the solution is also novel and inventive"
>
> http://www.epo.org/topics/issues/computer-implemented-inventions.html
>
> "The EPO will held its next European Patent Forum and European Inventor
> of the Year 2008 in Ljubljana" where ? :)
>
> http://snipurl.com/25nny
>
http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-30734/the-epo-is-already-lobbying-the-slovenian-presidency-for-eu-epla
They go for the easy target, those whom are easy to corrupt. Giants like
Simens, Microsoft (plus -- and via -- its lobbying arms), Nokia and other
intellectual monopolies want to rewrite the law to secure the monopoly with
fences. They wants a modern feudal system.
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