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Patently stupidPatently stupidPosted Oct 9, 2012 22:03 UTC (Tue) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463)In reply to: Patently stupid by amtota Parent article: The Patent, Used as a Sword (New York Times)
Why would they be in favour of software patents? UK law forbids patents on math; and software is math, provable. Why do they think math should be patentable?
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Patently stupid Posted Oct 10, 2012 10:22 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Pure software isn't patentable in any country signed up to the European Patent Convention. However, many European countries still issue patents on software, apparently because software running on a machine is *not* pure software anymore. Certainly, the UK issues software patents - just have a read through any random issue of the UKIPO journal.
Patently stupid Posted Oct 10, 2012 18:48 UTC (Wed) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613) [Link]
The patent offices in the entire European union *issues* software patents, but so far only courts in Germany, and to a limited extent the United Kingdom, *upholds* them.
In the rest of the Union, the courts summarily find the patents invalid, as software patents don't meet the legal definition of a patent. Of course the patent trolls know this, and only sues corporations that do business in either Germany or the United Kingdoms...
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