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Story: EC: Software patents will still be granted

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Challenge the process not the patents. The EPO can grant an infinite number of invalid sw patents and grind the proponents for a free market down that way. Better to focus on the cause and get the EPO to stop granting sw patents in the first place and, since they know they are invalid, revoke ones already granted.

Apparently, stronger speech is needed than in the European Patent Convention which already seems to prohibit sw patents. Perhaps legislation specifically prohibiting sw patents is needed now.

By defeating the CIID, Europe has gained an enormous advantage over the US. Recent changes to immigration laws will heighten that advantage and Europe would do well to capitalize on that advantage now, before the US reacts either via trade like against Aus/NZ or by lifting the burden of sw patents from their own domestic market.

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