Patenting In The Burst Test

Posted by Hemos on Sunday August 12, 2001 @11:45PM from the se-habla-espanol? dept.

gerddie writes "Heise has an interview with S. Kiesewetter-Köbinger, a patent examiner of the German PA, about the cultural break, software patents will impose to Europe if they become valid. He points out the danger to open source and science, and that with patents on software even mathematical methods would become patentable because there is no longer any difference. There is also a companion article competition in the court room, that gives some more insight in the history and current state of the patent system. All is in german, but as always the fish is your friend."

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If I patent one and zero then... by CmdrTaco+on · 2001-08-13 00:17 · Score: 2, Funny

all you base are belong to me!

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Whew! by imac.usr · 2001-08-13 00:45 · Score: 4, Funny

After giving the headline a cursory glance, I thought it said, "Patenting The Burn-In Test"....although somebody's probably already working on that one.

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