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Europe Divided on Software Patents

Posted by michael on Friday March 9, 2001 @02:03PM from the patently-obvious-patents dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Just when we thought we were safe in Europe, it looks as though patents for business processes could be voted through after all. Check this link."

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Re:Nothing to say? by LarsG · 2001-03-13 02:24 · Score: 2

Europe is not exactly divided on software patents.

You have a small, but powerful, group of lawyers that want to see business and software patents. They tried to get this approved before any real studies could be done on the effects of sw/b patents.

These studies are now starting to show up, and it seems like we're winning.

Check the UK patent office conclusion on sw/bm patents.

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You know, Michael,... by Kasreyn · 2001-03-09 10:51 · Score: 2

You *could* provide some commentary to let us know what this link IS before we go unleashing the /. effect hither, thither and yon, eh?

I'm personally wondering if some of /.'s editors could be replaced by a post sifting script that rates the value of a submission by whether it contains weighted words like "Linux", "Napster", "RIAA", "FBI", "Carnivore"... Hmmm, wonder if this is the case already? =P

-Kasreyn

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