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April deadline set for submissions in EPO software case
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| Interested parties have until the end of April to submit written statements
| to the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal for the president’s referral on the
| patentability of computer programs
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| Given the controversy over the patenting of computer programs in recent
| years, a large number of submissions can be expected, from the software
| industry, legal professionals, trade associations and the open-source and
| anti-software patent communities.
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http://www.managingip.com/Article/2086083/April-deadline-set-for-submissions-in-EPO-software-case.html
IPO sticks to four-step software patent test
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| Many observers saw the ruling as a rejection of the IPO's previous methods of
| judging software patent claims. The IPO has said, though, that it will
| continue to apply the Aerotel/Macrossan test to decide whether an invention
| qualifies for a patent.
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http://security.itproportal.com/articles/2008/12/18/ipo-sticks-four-step-software-patent-test/
Recent:
Bad News on the UK Software Patent Front
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| Well, no more unfair than not allowing physicists to patent the laws they
| discover, or the theorems that mathematicians prove. The point is, software
| is not "closer to a mathematical method", it *is* a mathematical method, or
| rather a concatenation of them.
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| All this juridical "on the one hand" and "on the other" in the interests
| of "balance" does not change this. The current decision is seriously bad
| news, because it opens the door to even more weaselly patent applications
| that contort themselves into the magic position to gain the favour of
| whichever Jesuit is on duty that day.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/10/bad-news-on-uk-software-patent-front.html
Court ruling strengthens patent protection for UK software
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| Technology companies will find it easier to safeguard their innovations in
| the UK after a court ruled that software should receive wider patent
| protection.
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| The Court of Appeal said today that complex software such as programmes
| designed to make mobile phones and computers work faster can be patented in
| the UK.
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| Previously, manufacturers could claim commercial exclusivity for their
| products under copyright laws but had less legal protection for underlying
| technical processes.
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| As a result of the ruling, developers are likely to find it easier to secure
| approval from the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO), which has
| traditionally been reluctant to grant patents to cover software.
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4907993.ece
Latest Decision on UK Software Patents Rejects UK-IPO Interpretation
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| Today’s Court of Appeal decision on the Symbian case has affirmed that the UK
| and European approaches to software patentability are fundamentally
| compatible. This upholds a High Court decision which had overturned the
| rejection by the UK-IPO of an application to patent “Mapping dynamic link
| libraries in a computing device”.
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http://www.marks-clerk.com/attorneys/news_one.aspx?newsid=220
Court of Appeal delivers a software patent boost in the UK
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| Companies looking to obtain and enforce software patents in the UK received a
| boost today when the Court of Appeal ruled against the UK IP Office in its
| appeal against a decision of the High Court in the Symbian case. The High
| Court had overturned a UKIPO decision not to grant a patent to Symbian for an
| accelerator relating to iPods, mobile phones and computers.
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http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=74ecc083-2eae-4b75-a64c-499c9e873f65
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