____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 25 March 2008 15:30 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> U.K. patent office ordered to accept software patent
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>>| A U.K. appeals court decision is causing confusion over longstanding
>>| European regulations that generally forbid granting a patent for a computer
>>| program.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9069998&intsrc=news_ts_head
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>> High Court says UK-IPO was wrong to reject software-related patent
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>>| The patentability of software is a controversial area of UK intellectual
>>| property law. The question seemed to be settled in a decision by the Court
>>| of Appeal in 2006 which outlined how courts should determine whether an
>>| invention consists purely of software, and therefore should not be awarded
>>| a patent.
>>|
>>| That ruling took in two cases, one involving a company called Aerotel and
>>| another involving inventor Neal Macrossan.
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>> http://www.out-law.com/page-8954
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>> Microsoft is meanwhile using its little trolls in the UK to fight for
>> software patents.
>>
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> This will be overturned, I'm quite sure. The UK's and EU's rules are
> quite clear. We do not want a new VAT system, but run by private
> companies on behalf of a few major corporations, which is what the
> patent system is rapidly turning into.
Major corporations OR small solicitor firms that only buy patents and initiate
lawsuits.
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