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Patenting In The Burst Test

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. The fish is -not- your friend. by sanermind · · Score: 4, Informative

    As, if Hemos had even bothered to read the translated article, he would have realized that it is long, and that babelfish STOPS TRANSLATING it less than a third of a way through the article.

    use freetranslation.com or one of the many other available translators instead.

    yeesh.

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  2. Whew! by imac.usr · · 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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