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Software patent directive rejected
Talkback In Japan, software patent scheme has been working for some years, but now the authority is planning to place some ristictions on it. Good news. It's too dangerous to be left free.
[July 6, 2005, 21:28]
Software patent war ignites again
News On Thursday the PES, Greens/EFA and GUE/NGL parliamentary groups warned that a measure facing a parliamentary vote on 11 or 12 October could take up where the failed software patent directive left off.
[September 21, 2006, 13:05]
Software patent fight moves to Parliament
News Opponents of software patenting fear that the practice would have very damaging effects, as it would allow people to patent an idea rather than a physical device. The patent system just doesn't work well for software," said Robin Gross, attorney...
[May 21, 2004, 12:10]
Software patent directive adopted
News The European Council adopted the software patent directive on Monday, despite requests from Denmark, Poland and Portugal to reject the directive. According to Florian Mueller, an anti-patent campaigner who watched the public part of the meeting, a...
[March 7, 2005, 9:45]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback I'm dismayed at the cretinous behaviour of the European commission and council in allowing the software patent directive to be adopted in it's current form. Where next for the opposition to the software patent directive?
[March 7, 2005, 23:21]
Software patent limits 'go too far'
News The European Parliament may have ruined its opportunity to reform the EU's software patents system with Wednesday's vote to approve the Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions, according to a patent law expert.
[September 26, 2003, 17:50]
Software patent fight moves to Parliament
Talkback From any angle, this new American style Corporate friendly Software Patent system is quite obviously going to be very bad for everyone but the large companies. It beggers belief how anyone (except maybe an MP being encouraged by corporate giants...
[May 22, 2004, 1:51]
Software patent battle set to flare up again
News The European Council of Ministers wants to bring it in, as part of its measures to harmonise patent law across Europe, but the European Parliament has fought this move. European industry, stripped of patent protection in its home market, would lose...
[October 29, 2004, 10:34]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback This will not help the genuine hardworking programmers because they don't have 50K lying around to aquire a software patent and they certainly don't have 500K lying around to keep the laywers of their back.
[March 8, 2005, 20:39]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback He did not ask for a remowal of the software patent directive from the A-list. I have just listend to the Danish "Økonomiminister" (minister of economy) Bendt Bendtsen statement. He just called for it to be optained on the B-list.
[March 7, 2005, 23:28]
Software patent protest to block Web sites
Talkback A patent is essentially a monopoly granted by the government for a certain amount of time ( I believe it's 17 years or something in Europe ). Amazon has a patent on one-click shopping IBM used to had a patent on showing thick lines on a computer...
[August 27, 2003, 16:05]
Software patent protest to block Web sites
News A June vote on the controversial proposal was put back amid criticism by MEPs that the legislation would institute a US-style patent regime that would be detrimental to European small businesses and open-source software developers.
[August 26, 2003, 14:00]
Software patent war ignites again
Talkback By now every instruction sequence has been used and so to try and patent anything is ridiculous. Copyright maybe but patent? Software is only programs written in a language, the same principal as a book.
[September 22, 2006, 14:11]
Software patent war ignites again
Talkback Would the writer be able to patent this book? That should keep the patent offices buisy. "If it's WRITTEN,like software, then it should be protected by COPYRIGHT" Software is mearly a list of instructions much as the plan we get with MFI furnature...
[September 22, 2006, 14:30]
Software patent protest to block Web sites
Talkback I point this out because the languages of the courts, for all the attempts to shape and contain the scope of a patent definition, allows for interpretation. The analogy would be that Newton and Liebniz could patent their notations but not the...
[August 28, 2003, 4:18]
Software patent directive rejected
Talkback That said, I would still like to know who the 81 MEPs are that didn't vote against the software patent directive and why. How to make (and keep on ensuring that) the booting out of software patents works out well for the EU economy and not so well...
[July 6, 2005, 22:50]
Software patent limits 'go too far'
Talkback Batteson that the issue of software patents is far too complex to be handed over to the European Parliament in the manner that it was, I still have to disagree with him when he suggests that the matter should be handled by the patent lawyers instead.
[October 1, 2003, 15:58]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Creating software is a labour intensive (and therefore expensive) process and it is right that companies that invest in it can protect that investment during the life of a patent, just as a company investing in any other area of industry can gain...
[March 7, 2005, 12:21]
Software patent directive rejected
Talkback Will Berlusconi and co.really accept defeat and abide by the European Patent Convention from the 1970's or will they try yet again to snake it through in some other form, perhaps piggy backed to some lesser known bill.
[July 6, 2005, 16:02]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback The sheer ignorance of using US patent protection and the word "healthy" in the same sentence is repulsive. Seriously, I dont think anyone in the software industry with any insight would think this, which is why "DB Consulting" must be a lawyer firm.
[March 7, 2005, 12:37]
