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Links: European Patent Battles
Posted by Steven Wu on Sunday, September 07 @ 15:02:27 EDT Patent
According to the Economist, Europe is currently having a major argument over whether to allow the patenting of software and business methods, a la Amazon's one-click shopping patent.
If the debate is more heated in Europe, it is because the directive in question is supposed to achieve two things at once. For one, it aims to harmonise how computer-implemented inventions are dealt with across the European Union--in order to avoid situations in which an invention is protected in one member state but not in another.
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[Second,] [t]he European Commission wants to avoid the American situation, in which case law drives authorities to issue computer-related patents all too easily, in particular for business methods and algorithms. . . . In the words of the directive, to be patentable an invention must make a "technical contribution"--meaning "a contribution to the state of the art in a technical field which is not obvious to a person skilled in the art."

Unsurprisingly, this definition is particularly controversial.

Read the Economist article here.
 
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According to more than just the Economist :) (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, September 08 @ 00:31:43 EDT
Here's just a few links I dug up quickly. Google can find many, many more. Lots of the hits are actually for unrelated pages because they replaced their page with a black one for a short time as part of an online protest.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1236389,00.asp

http://lwn.net/Articles/46839/
http://lwn.net/Articles/38460/
http://lwn.net/Articles/38302/
http://lwn.net/Articles/46491/

http://vrijschrift.org/swpat/press/final_factsheet1092003.pdf

http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=52003PC0046&model=guichett

http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/demo0819/index.en.html
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/amccarthy030901/
http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/index.en.html
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/prop/index.en.html
http://swpat.ffii.org/analysis/testsuite/index.en.html
http://www.ffii.org/proj/kunst/swpat/pamflet/europarl03-testbed.en.pdf
http://www.fipr.org/copyright/draft-ipr-enforce.html

http://news.com.com/2100-1008_3-5068842.html?tag=bplst
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5070092.html?tag=mainstry
http://news.com.com/2100-1008_3-5069279.html?tag=bplst
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-998547.html?tag=bplst
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5068007.html?tag=bplst

http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/oeil/oeil_ViewDNL.ProcViewByNum?lang=2&procnum=COD020047

http://www.timj.co.uk/digiculture/patents/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,975126,00.html

http://petition.eurolinux.org/index_html?LANG=en
http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/BigDemo27aug
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/08/276081.html
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/1244241&mode=thread&tid=155&tid=99
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1959231&mode=thread&tid=155&tid=99 (not really the same, but what the heck)
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/040259&mode=thread&tid=155&tid=98&tid=99 (not really the same either, but what the heck)



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