-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
“Software Patents in Malaysia?”
,----[ Quote ]
| It is interesting to note that globally, the software patent mess is starting
| to rear its ugly head yet again. In the EU, Charlie McCreevy is trying to
| legalise software patents with a US-EU patent treaty, and in India the Patent
| Office is working on a Draft Patent Manual to allow software patents.
`----
http://www.ylhyhg.com.cn/index.php/2009/03/10/software-patents-in-malaysia/
Mixed Results in Tafas v. Doll Appeal Over New Patent Rules
,----[ Quote ]
| The conflict stems from a set of rules that the USPTO tried to put into
| effect in 2007. These would have limited patent applications to five unique
| claims and 25 total claims per invention, versus the historic lack of limit.
| Among other things, they would also have restricted the number of requests to
| reconsider a decision to reject a patent application as well as the number of
| continuations, or chances to effectively amend a patent application already
| in process. (Additional continuations would have been theoretically possible,
| but only with special permission and filing of additional paperwork that
| experts say could open the patents, if granted, to additional avenues of
| attack from competitors.)
`----
http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10001136/mixed-results-in-tafas-v-doll-appeal-over-new-patent-rules/
Recent:
EPO seeks to validate software patents without the European Parliament
,----[ Quote ]
| At the highest level of the European Patent Office (EPO), the legality of
| software patents in Europe is about to be tested. The FFII warns that the
| European Parliament is being bypassed by allowing a decision with EU-wide
| implications to be made without its involvement or any real debate.
|
| The President of the European Patent Office (EPO), Alison Brimelow, has asked
| the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) to decide on the interpretation of the
| European Patent Convention (EPC) regarding the exclusion of software from
| patentability. The EBA is replacing the European Parliament in order to
| validate software patents EU-wide without the need of a debate.
`----
http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/EPO_seeks_to_validate_software_patents_without_the_European_Parliament
Commission repeats call for single EU patent
,----[ Quote ]
| The European Commission has reiterated its demand for the creation of a
| single European patent. It said the absence of such a protection is hindering
| the growth of technology companies in the European Union.
`----
http://www.out-law.com/page-9878
Patents for software?
,----[ Quote ]
| The EPO does not grant patents for computer programs or computer-implemented
| business methods that make no technical contribution. Programs for computers
| as such are excluded from patentability by virtue of Art. 52(2)(c) and (3)
| EPC. According to this patent law, a program for a computer is not patentable
| if it does not have the potential to cause a "further technical effect" which
| must go beyond the inherent technical interactions between hardware and
| software.
|
| On the other hand, a CII (even in the form of a computer program) that can
| provide this further technical effect can be patentable, subject to the other
| patentability requirements, such as novelty and inventive step. In this case,
| it would be recognised as providing a technical solution to a technical
| problem.
`----
http://www.epo.org/topics/issues/computer-implemented-inventions/software.html
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAknJeVYACgkQU4xAY3RXLo7sLACfR0qT8bdD3cuD3Q5kPdhVwefC
1u8An0IeaVs935qmn3B/zBgHD0dCzRck
=U7/j
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
