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Patent Directive Slammed At UKPO Workshop
News A group of software developers and patent lawyers agreed on Thursday at a UK Patent Office (UKPO) workshop that the definition of technical contribution in the proposed European software patent directive is wrong.
[April 8, 2005, 14:30]
Patent Directive Slammed At UKPO Workshop
Talkback But do you see what is meant by the FFII definition covering a technical textbook? It refers to a teaching about physical processes, and is very broad. And that the results were determined by the nature of examples chosen.
[May 20, 2005, 16:01]
Patent Directive Slammed At UKPO Workshop
Talkback I disagree. I was at the workshop and almost everyone agreed that the definition in the proposed directive let every patent through, while the majority agreed that some patents definitely SHOULDN'T have been let through.
[May 19, 2005, 17:05]
Patent Directive Slammed At UKPO Workshop
Talkback This article misrepresents the discussion at the London workshop I attended. There was no agreement that the definition in the proposed Directive is wrong. As for the definition permitting most software to be patented, since the definitions were...
[May 18, 2005, 16:04]
Patent Directive Slammed At UKPO Workshop
Talkback The patents directive will not have the benefitial effects that the Patent Office and the EU Commission think it will have. Only large companies can afford to play the patent game. The characteristics of an industrial product or process are quite...
[April 18, 2005, 22:22]
Patent Directive Slammed At UKPO Workshop
Talkback Without "tinkering" with the definition, the proposed UKPO/EC directive definition will stand. Jules, you say I believe the opponents to this European legislation are being led into error by tinkering with the definition, leading to a flawed...
[April 12, 2005, 13:47]
Patent Directive Slammed At UKPO Workshop
Talkback I am concerned that any software patents will be a vehicle for greed and self interest regardless of definition, and will be wide open to abuse by those with deep pockets and/or no actual input into the development of the software.
[April 11, 2005, 14:43]
Patent Directive Slammed At UKPO Workshop
Talkback The best thing to do would be to drop software patents all together since there are too many self interested parties involved now to risk allowing such parties any possibility to exploit holes or abuse the court systems by means of test trials.
[April 9, 2005, 1:17]
Patent Injustice For Small Software Companies
Talkback Ignoring the tricksy "per se", that the UKPO/EPO use to pretend (absurdly) that they were talking either about written source code or about whole applications or about some phantom "non-technical" kind of software, when they are forced into a...
[June 29, 2005, 23:44]
Patent Office Wants Debate On Software Directive
Talkback The UKPO has always claimed (in it's pre-DTI meeting brochure for example), that pure software and business methods are not patentable in Europe and they have also always claimed to be the most vigilant of patent-on-idea-thinly-disguised-as...
[February 4, 2005, 14:31]
Patent Campaigners Make Government Breakthrough
Talkback The UKPO understands neither software nor innovation and is sleepwalking into a US style tar pit of companies using patent portfolio's aggressively to cripple smaller or innovative rivals with court battles, and where it is no longer possible to...
[December 15, 2004, 11:32]
Patent Office Email Bid To Attract Public Comments
News The UK Patent Office (UKPO) has set up a facility to make it easier for people to comment on patent applications. Members of the public will now be able to comment on pending patents by email, rather than needing to contact the patent office by...
[June 3, 2005, 17:55]
UK Workshops Find Patent Directive Faulty
News Workshops held by the UK Patent Office (UKPO) around the country have found that the definition of technical contribution in the software patent directive would let through too many patents, according to the UKPO on Friday.
[May 27, 2005, 18:25]
Patent Office Wants Debate On Software Directive
News The UK Patent Office (UKPO) announced on Friday that it will hold a series of public workshops across the UK to discuss the proposed software patent directive. These public workshops could influence the UK's future patent policy, according to a...
[February 4, 2005, 11:55]
UK Patent Office Under Fire Over Software Report
News The UK Patent Office (UKPO) has been criticised by anti-patent campaigners on Monday for an article it published last week on the software patent directive. One of the claims that has angered both Hudson and Mueller is that the UKPO article states...
[November 8, 2004, 17:18]
Patent Injustice For Small Software Companies
News We have been made aware of the difficulties that SMEs may face in defending patents," says Lawrence Smith-Higgins, the head of awareness, information and media at the UKPO. The proponents of the directive, which include the UK Patent Office (UKPO...
[June 29, 2005, 18:15]
UK Companies See Perils In Software Patents
News Lord Sainsbury, the minister for science and innovation, and the UK Patent Office (UKPO) heard evidence that many companies have been successfully protecting their work through copyright laws, and are unhappy about the prospect of having to apply...
[December 15, 2004, 14:40]
Public Meeting On Patents Excludes Anti-patent Campaigners
News The meeting, which has been organised by the UK Patent Office (UKPO), will include speeches from DTI Minister Lord David Sainsbury of Turville, UKPO executives and a question and answer session. Richard Allan, a Liberal Democrat MP who is...
[December 7, 2004, 15:55]
UK Patent Office Considers Problem Of Trivial Patents
News One of the main criteria of patentability under UK patent law is that 'inventions' must "not be obvious to someone with a good knowledge and experience of the subject", according to the UKPO. asks the UKPO.
[February 7, 2006, 9:00]
UKIP Bashes Software Patents
Talkback Glad to hear some politicians haven't swallowed the contra-factual drivel and mind-bogglingly fallacious reasoning coming from the likes of EICTA, the EPO and the UKPO. When Nokia's IPR department can explain exactly why innovation and progress in...
[May 3, 2005, 20:31]
