EU software patent law faces axe

Jamoe · February 18, 2005, 09:47:40 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4274811.stm

QuoteThe European Parliament has thrown out a bill that would have allowed software to be patented.

Anonymous · February 18, 2005, 01:32:13 PM

hurrah!

suicidal_monkey · February 18, 2005, 01:35:25 PM

good old Poles

ChimpBoy · February 18, 2005, 03:10:59 PM

Hurrah - wave goodbye to future large-scale commercial investment and job opportunities...wait...oh.....

[The Devils Advocate rests

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A Twig · February 18, 2005, 03:41:34 PM

Hurrah - wave goodbye to software firms re-locating to America so they can patent their stuff...

Jamoe · February 18, 2005, 03:48:29 PM

http://l2.espacenet.com/espacenet/viewer?P...gb&LG=en&DB=EPD
http://l2.espacenet.com/espacenet/viewer?P...gb&LG=en&DB=EPD

Using credit cards to pay for good and services online is patended. Loads more stupid patents that will apply if current directive is passed into EU legislation.

I'm all for any business protecting its investments but the boundaries need to be clearer.

Quotewave goodbye to future large-scale commercial investment and job opportunities

I say call there bluff.

Quote"The Company believes that existing copyright law and available trade secret protections, as opposed to patent law, are better suited to protecting computer software developments."
Oracle Corporation Patent Policy

ChimpBoy · February 18, 2005, 03:55:44 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by A Twig@Feb 18 2005, 03:41 PM
Hurrah - wave goodbye to software firms re-locating to America so they can patent their stuff...
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Quite right - they'll go to India where the skills are cheaper and they can exert more pressure on the law makers

Jamoe · February 18, 2005, 04:03:58 PM

QuoteThe application of patents to this field would reduce dramatically the level of innovation that we are currently seeing. Patents would make it vastly more difficult to develop software, due to the legal process one would have to go through every time you wrote a piece of software, increasing costs and reducing incentive to innovate.

http://www.softwarepatents.co.uk/intro/no_...re_patents.html

out of interest hs anyone got any good sites that are for the current implementation of patent laws that are trying to be passed?

Ive only recently been reading up on these issues and most of my info comes from the anti patent sites.

A Twig · February 18, 2005, 06:24:15 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by ChimpBoy@Feb 18 2005, 03:55 PM
Quite right - they'll go to India where the skills are cheaper and they can exert more pressure on the law makers
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That was what I meant... America/India, same difference.... :blush: