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EPO: FSFE Does It by the Numbers
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/epo-fsfe-does-it-by-numbers.html
Same old Directive, new number
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| Do you remember Council Directive 91/250/EEC of 14 May 1991 on the legal
| protection of computer programs? The Directive which requires EU members to
| protect computer programs as literary works and to provide for
| interoperability, decompilation and the making of back-up copies? Well, it is
| being repealed and re-enacted in consolidated form because a sufficient
| number of amendments have been made to it. It has now become Directive
| 2009/24/EC of 23 April 2009 on the legal protection of computer programs.
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http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2009/05/same-old-directive-new-number.html
UK Patent Office Approves Software Patent... Rationalizes The Decision
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| Rather than just saying "uh, the courts said so," it claims that it allowed
| the patent because it's "more than just a software program," saying that the
| invention was a "technical contribution." Apparently, the new rules mean that
| as long as software makes a "technical contribution" it can be patented.
| But... uh... what software doesn't make a "technical contribution" of some
| sort
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090507/0230134776.shtml
UK Allows Full-Blown Software Patent
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| As readers of this blog will know, software cannot be patented in Europe “as
| such”; quite what that wretched “as such” means is the subject of major
| arguments. As I noted earlier this week, the European Patent Office is
| currently conducting a consultation into that and much else concerning the
| patentability of software, to which it is relatively well disposed.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2168
Recent:
European Commission On ACTA: TRIPS Is Floor Not Ceiling
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| The EU Commission is “committed to improve the international legal framework
| for IP protection” and sees “ACTA as one way to reach that goal,” Devigne
| said. There was no intention to duplicate TRIPS. Rather, “we want to go
| beyond it,” he said, adding, “TRIPS is the floor, not the ceiling.”
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/04/22/european-commission-on-acta-trips-is-floor-not-ceiling/
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