Re: Strawmen and Urban Legends

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

Seg, 2006-12-18 às 00:34 -0800, Regis escreveu:
> Search for "computer implemented invention"
> At the EPO, software as such is also not patentable, but a computer
> implemented invention can be patentable if it provides a technical
> effect that goes further to the normal functions of the computer
> ;-)

It should be noted that the EPO is not meaning "normal functions" as we
might understand it...

According to an EPO presentation given at various european patent
offices...
        * using less memory is patentable
        * being faster is patentable
        * not being idle is patentable[*]

Rui

[*] ok, this *last* one was a joke to see if you were awake, but in
practice, giving many of the software patents that were issued, it might
just as well

-- 
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?

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