Meanwhile in Europe
Meanwhile in Europe
Posted Mar 27, 2008 20:06 UTC (Thu) by Tobu (subscriber, #24111)In reply to: It may end up cementing software patents? by smoogen
Parent article: Patent reform bill unable to clean up patent mess (ars technica)
The European patent office (the EPO) is certainly lax and does not reject applications for software patents. Nevertheless, these are explicitly non-patentable since 1973. Recent attempts to modify the law backfired, re-affirming the illegality of software patents.