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Police raid not about software patentsPolice raid not about software patentsPosted Mar 14, 2008 18:45 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: Police raid not about software patents by stuart_hc Parent article: Some topics related to MP3 players
I'm way out of my area of expertise, but from the articles about UK software patenting, it sounds to me like the same rule that you can't patent a computer program would apply to a physical device that runs (and is packaged with) the program. I.e. if there's nothing novel about the CPU and the only thing invented was a new sequence of instructions for it to execute, it falls under the computer program exclusion. I also notice that the articles distinguish UK from Europe, so at least under that terminology, I shouldn't consider these cases to be examples of how "European" courts deal with software patents.
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