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European Patent Office rules on software
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| The European Patent Office (EPO) has ended
| speculation about the extent to which
| software can be patented under the European
| Patent Convention with a decision handed
| down yesterday from its Enlarged Board of
| Appeal.
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http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2262994/european-patent-office-rules
Europe clarifies its position on intellectual property
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| Yesterday, the Enlarged Board of Appeal of
| the European Patent Office (EPO) handed
| down its long-awaited 'opinion' on the
| extent to which software can be patented
| under the European Patent Convention.
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http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2263024/europe-gets-serious-ip
Reactions to the EPO computer program patent decision roll in
http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=cc296bce-5de8-484c-ac43-95d5b6ce68df
European Patent Office silent on software patent question
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| No change: That's the result of an 18-month
| long appeals process that the president of
| the European Patent Office hoped would
| clarify the rules on whether software may
| be patented.
|
| In October 2008, EPO President Alison
| Brimelow referred four questions on the
| patentability of software to the EPO's
| Enlarged Board of Appeal, its highest
| appeals court, on the grounds that a number
| of patent cases had reached "different
| decisions."
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/open-source-business/news/index.cfm?newsId=20266
Patenting Computer-Implemented-Inventions (CIIs) in the EPO
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/05/patenting-computer-implemented-inventions-ciis-in-the-epo.html
EPO EBoA Opinion in re G 03/08 (Patentability Of Computer-Implemented Inventions)
http://www.ipjur.com/blog2/index.php?/archives/150-EPO-EBoA-Opinion-in-re-G-0308-Patentability-Of-Computer-Implemented-Inventions.html
âSoftwareâ Patents in Europe
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| To be honest, the decision was pretty much
| expected: the European Patent Office (EPO)
| has been taking a fairly consistent
| approach to computer-implemented inventions
| and has a growing body of learning
| materials on the subject.
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http://ipchimp.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/software-patents-in-europe/
G 3/08 (Software Patents) decision is out - Tufty the Cat vindicated
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| As many in the 'FOSS'/anti-patent world
| would undoubtedly say, perhaps it is now
| time for the legislator to take over.
| However, I would have very serious doubts
| about whether it will be possible to come
| to any sort of agreement among the member
| states of either the EU or the EPC that
| would stand any chance of resolving the
| issue once and for all.
|
| [...]
|
| 6. T 424/03, Microsoft does deviate from a
| view expressed in T 1173/97, IBM,
| concerning whether a claim to a program on
| a computer-readable medium necessarily
| avoids exclusion from patentability under
| Article 52(2) EPC. However this is a
| legitimate development of the case law and
| there is no divergence which would make the
| referral of this point to the Enlarged
| Board of Appeal by the President
| admissible.
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2010/05/g-308-software-patents-decision-is-out.html
History uploaded to YouTube.... in English:
European Parliament rejects the Software Patent Directive (6 July 2005) (EN)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWsi-XcB0KA
French:
European Parliament rejects the Software Patent Directive (6 July 2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neOA0v7u3cE
Recent:
EU software patent issue goes to appeals body
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| Alison Brimelow, president of the European Patent Office, has referred the
| deeply contentious question about how to assess the patentability of
| software-related inventions to her office's top appeals body, the enlarged
| board of appeal (EBoA), the EPO said late Friday.
|
| [....]
|
| In November 2006 Neal Macrossan, an Australian entrepreneur software
| developer, lost an appeal against the U.K. Patent Office's rejection of his
| patent application. He wanted patent protection for a method for producing
| documents "for use in the formation of a corporate entity using a data
| processing system."
|
| On the same day the U.K. Court of Appeal threw out a challenge against a
| patent owned by IT company Aerotel for a computer program that created a new
| network infrastructure for a group of computers.
|
| The three judges presiding over the cases considered the first a business
| method, and therefore unpatentable, while the second was seen as a patentable
| hardware change. Another U.K. judge called for a referral to the EPO's top
| appeals body to clarify the law concerning software patentability.
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http://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2008/10/24/24idg-EU-software-pat.html
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