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Patently stupidPatently stupidPosted Oct 10, 2012 10:22 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341)In reply to: Patently stupid by Seegras Parent article: The Patent, Used as a Sword (New York Times)
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.
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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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