Either fix the patent system or allow the US economy to suffer

Posted May 5, 2011 21:47 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Either fix the patent system or allow the US economy to suffer by copsewood
Parent article: A victory for the trolls

Software patents are actually EXplicitly FORBIDDEN by the European Patent Treaty.

So unless they can get round it by claiming it's "not a pure software patent", then any software patent has been illegally issued. That doesn't stop them, though :-(

Cheers,
Wol