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Originally posted by yossarianuk View PostThat doesn't mean the EU - just Germany (at present)
The last software patent vote was overwhelmingly against.
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Originally posted by rbmorse View PostWhat about the third bullet point in the "In a nutshell" section of the linked article?
The following note was written by European Patent Attorney Paul Cole who is also the Visiting Professor of IP at …
"The bottom line for the time being is that the status quo will be maintained."
Not that the status quo is any good, but still better than the US...
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Insanity.
"...the highest German appeals court in matters of civil and criminal law overruled the country's highest patent-specialized court and decided that a client-server software for the automatic generation of structured documents (such as XML or HTML) is an example of a patentable software invention."
That covers what, every web technology on the planet?
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