Uk Patent Component Software Patent Workshop

ZDNet reports on the workshop held yesteryear the Great Britain Patent Office concerning the European Union software patent directive. It won’t come upwardly equally much of a surprise to acquire that the attendees, who included software developers in addition to patent lawyers weren’t impressed yesteryear the Directive. They claim that the criteria for deciding if a patent should hold out granted are in addition to then vague that most all software patent applications volition hold out granted. The Great Britain Patent Office, which has helped to steer the legislation through to its minute reading later on this month, denies that this is the case. The grouping besides considered a pose out of fictional case-studies in addition to an option Definition of “technical contribution” proposed yesteryear the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure. The workshop formed business office of a serial of thirteen which accept been held across the UK.

Cute…but create they qualify for patent protection?

is interested to know what volition come upwardly out of the results of these workshops. Watch this space.

Computer-related inventions here, here, here in addition to here