Linux patent pool to push for 'defensive publication' (Network World)

In fairness to the French and Software Patents in France, they don't examine national patents
without insisting the application goes through the European Patent Office.  Which means that
the current EPO tests for computer implemented inventions apply to French Software Patents
(i.e. a concrete technical effect in the output of the computer program which is inventive
over the known art -- I'm not an EPA, and this isn't legal advice).

BTW, you get the same 3-year licence-as-of-right terms in the UK, too.

K3n.