When software is patentable? Where is software patentable? With this question the struggling European Patent Office (EPO) for many years. With this question the struggling European Patent Office (EPO) for many years. The problem is that the European Patent Convention says that “software as such” no patent may be granted, but what is “software as [...]
Finally. European patents are no longer fully in the Dutch should be translated into Netherlands valid. Who gets an English European patent only need to have the claims (”conclusions”) in the Dutch to deliver. I’ve never understood why the claims and not, for example, the extract, for interpreting claims it you do need a patent [...]
Patents are still a good gauge of where technicians to deal with that. Years ago, I attended a lecture by Patent of the Netherlands (the BIE, when yet). Since told an investigator that the number of patents in quiet carts since there was considerable attention from politics for noise on Saturday morning by, indeed, noisy [...]
This article was first published in The Guardian, London, June 20, 2005. The software patent directive was passed on July 6 against because his supporters had decided at the last minute not to try their strength. They surely will try again, not quite the same way.
On July 6, 2005, the European Parliament will vote on [...]