Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 05 June 2008 23:08 : \____
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>> Software patents: IPO revises practice and High Court makes another
>>> pro-patentee decision
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>>>| The Intellectual Property Office has revised its guidance on claims
>>>| relating to computer programs, reflecting the more permissive stance taken
>>>| by the High Court in the recent Astron Clinica case. The High Court has
>>>| made a further pro-patentee ruling, this time in the case of Symbian's
>>>| application for an improved method of accessing a dynamic link library.
>>>|
>>>| As reported in our last technology update, the practice of the UK
>>>| Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) of flatly rejecting patent claims to
>>>| computer program products has recently been overruled. The case law in the
>>>| area, formulated in the 2006 Aerotel and Macrossan decisions (see our
>>>| Internet & E-Commerce Update of November 2006) was clarified in January
>>>| 2008 by the decision of the High Court in Astron Clinica & Ors (see
>>>| coverage in our last Updated dated February 2008).
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>>> http://www.olswang.com/updates/tech_q208/it_q208.pdf
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>>
>> Interesting that it would seem to be Nokia pushing this (symbian).
>
> Nokia is one of the worst pro-swpatents lobbyists. Siemens is considered the
> worst by FFII.
>
Yet both Nokia and Siemens were early members of the Open Source
Development Labs, now the Linux Foundation. Bizarre...
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