Thanks for the text mirror. In Bolton it was suggested that Technical Contribution as a patent requirement is important because the patent office is lacking in access to prior art, particularly for software (no old patents to compare?)
We were told that 50% of challenged patents are overturned, mostly due to prior art not available to the patent office at time of application. The technical contribution test helps counter this. Sam _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
