Comments on: SHiFT: Dannie Jost - Patents and software http://strange.corante.com/2006/09/29/shift-dannie-jost-patents-and-software Picking out patterns in the chaos Wed, 16 May 2012 20:58:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Alex Gault http://strange.corante.com/2006/09/29/shift-dannie-jost-patents-and-software#comment-2210 Alex Gault Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:28:16 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2006/09/29/shift-dannie-jost-patents-and-software#comment-2210 For anyone interested in participating in a community and broader discussion about about intellectual property and patents, you may be interested in LegalForce, an online marketplace for intellectual property that just launch in beta format this week. LegalForce is both a marketplace where patents can be bought, sold and licensed -- and a professional network for inventors, entrepreneurs, IP professionals, attorneys and investors and anyone else interested in innovation and invention. The site includes groups, discussion boards, videos, event listings and a classified section. For anyone interested in participating in a community and broader discussion about about intellectual property and patents, you may be interested in LegalForce, an online marketplace for intellectual property that just launch in beta format this week.

LegalForce is both a marketplace where patents can be bought, sold and licensed — and a professional network for inventors, entrepreneurs, IP professionals, attorneys and investors and anyone else interested in innovation and invention. The site includes groups, discussion boards, videos, event listings and a classified section.

]]> By: rattus http://strange.corante.com/2006/09/29/shift-dannie-jost-patents-and-software#comment-2209 rattus Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:05:03 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2006/09/29/shift-dannie-jost-patents-and-software#comment-2209 Many thanks for these wonderful notes. Patents, software patents in particular, are sure a twisted and delicate world on its own. Many thanks for these wonderful notes. Patents, software patents in particular, are sure a twisted and delicate world on its own.

]]> By: Marco Menardi http://strange.corante.com/2006/09/29/shift-dannie-jost-patents-and-software#comment-2208 Marco Menardi Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:38:19 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2006/09/29/shift-dannie-jost-patents-and-software#comment-2208 "you better be aware of what is out there in terms of software patents" should be "you better fight software patents tentatives of introduction in Europe will all your strengths", because if you just know that EPO has approved about 30,000 (illegal) sw patents in Europe so far, you realize that you simply have to STOP CODING and do business that have nothing to do with software. There is no escape, every (non trivial) program infringes many patents, and if you are sued, you are ruined. So help the fight (the current one is against EPLA proposal), also with monetary donations: www.ffii.org “you better be aware of what is out there in terms of software patents”
should be
“you better fight software patents tentatives of introduction in Europe will all your strengths”, because if you just know that EPO has approved about 30,000 (illegal) sw patents in Europe so far, you realize that you simply have to STOP CODING and do business that have nothing to do with software. There is no escape, every (non trivial) program infringes many patents, and if you are sued, you are ruined.
So help the fight (the current one is against EPLA proposal), also with monetary donations:
http://www.ffii.org

]]> By: P.L.Hayes http://strange.corante.com/2006/09/29/shift-dannie-jost-patents-and-software#comment-2207 P.L.Hayes Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:36:55 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2006/09/29/shift-dannie-jost-patents-and-software#comment-2207 Software (information processing) 'inventions' certainly are patentable at the EPO and at the Patent Offices of most individual European states. It's got nothing to do with the PCT or "American specifications". It is (mainly) because of the teleologically motivated and absurd* interpretation of the EPC's "as such" clause developed over the years by the Boards of Appeal of the EPO. *1. The claim category of a computer-implemented method is distinguished from that of a computer program. Even though a method, in particular a method of operating a computer, may be put into practice with the help of a computer program, a claim relating to such a method does not claim a computer program in the category of a computer program (point 5.1 of the reasons). http://legal.european-patent-office.org/dg3/biblio/t030424eu1.htm http://www.ffii.org.uk/archives/28 Software (information processing) ‘inventions’ certainly are patentable at the EPO and at the Patent Offices of most individual European states. It’s got nothing to do with the PCT or “American specifications”. It is (mainly) because of the teleologically motivated and absurd* interpretation of the EPC’s “as such” clause developed over the years by the Boards of Appeal of the EPO.

*1. The claim category of a computer-implemented method is distinguished from that of a computer program. Even though a method, in particular a method of operating a computer, may be put into practice with the help of a computer program, a claim relating to such a method does not claim a computer program in the category of a computer program (point 5.1 of the reasons).

http://legal.european-patent-office.org/dg3/biblio/t030424eu1.htm
http://www.ffii.org.uk/archives/28

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