Legal Alert: European Commission proposal to make all ideas patentable |
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| alfer
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23-Feb-2002 09:40:11 |
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| The European Commission has proposed to legalise the granting of patents on computer programs as such in Europe.
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The definitive document was adopted by the EC on the morning of 20/02/2002 and published that very noon. Some of the points the EC/BSA proposes in term of legal doctrine are:
- Computer programs as such are patentable inventions
- All practical problem solutions are patentable inventions
And in terms of software economy:
- The EC/BSA ignores all economic studies, including official economic reports by the governments of France and Germany.
- The EC/BSA recognizes also that open source software developers may have to get a patent license to keep on developing their projects and that nothing guarantees that they will receive it.
For a complete coverage of the new, that also includes a critical edition of the text, with annotation and a tabular comparison between the EC/BSA initial and final draft, visit this link at the Furderverein fur eine Freie Informationelle Infrastruktur/Federation For a Free Informational Infrastructure site.
Source: FFII.org
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