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Software Patents: New Guidance from the IPO
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| The Intellectual Property Office had previously recognized inventions that
| either solve technical problems external to a computer or solve "a technical
| problem within the computer" as potentially patentable inventions. The sea
| change of Symbian is that
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| "improving the operation of a computer by solving a problem arising from
| the way the computer was programmed - for example, a tendency to crash
| due to conflicting library program calls - can also be regarded as
| solving "a technical problem within the computer" if it leads to a more
| reliable computer. Thus, a program that results in a computer running
| faster or more reliably may be considered to provide a technical
| contribution even if the invention solely addresses a problem in the
| programming."
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http://nipclaw.blogspot.com/2008/12/softare-patents-new-guidance-from-ipo.html
Software Patents in Europe via caselaw of a Central Patent Court
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SyC4nktJQbQ
Software patents again, can I have your attention please
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| All software patents I have read so far are worthless. Yet the government
| approved monopoly.
| Especially when you live in Europe sign this petition:
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| http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu/
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http://www.os2world.com/content/view/18686/2/
“Staff at the European Patent Office went on strike accusing the organization
of corruption: specifically, stretching the standards for patents in order to
make more money.”
“One of the ways that the EPO has done this is by issuing software patents in
defiance of the treaty that set it up.”
--Richard Stallman
Recent:
Chocolate coins for EPO cash cow
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| Examiners of the European Patent Office have recently invaded one of the
| secret meetings of the Administrative Council with chocolate coins, pointing
| to the conflict of interests between the National Patent Offices (NPOs) and
| their appetite of "more patents, more money".
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-105735/chocolate-coins-for-epo-corruption
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