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On Tuesday 12 July 2005 23:00, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Barbie's journal, via Ovid, made me aware of patent EP1170667 "Software > Package Verification" granted last month in the EU. > http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP1170667 > > It appears to patent basic software testing frameworks. This entire patent system is becoming so silly. :-( For what it is worth, this patent would be not legal/not enforcable in Germany due to be "software only". (It would also probably not quality on grounds of being obvious, I fail to see what is so patent-worthy on this patent. Even I could have come up with a testsystem.) As for the rest of the EU, software-only patents are very probably not enforcable, anyway. (Although I lost track over how the issue now really is, the last thing I heard there was a victory for the no-software-patent crowd (yeah!), but then maybe it just cemented the status quo (namely, everything under the sun gets patented left/right). But IANAL nor a PA. Best wishes, Tels - -- Signed on Wed Jul 13 00:27:25 2005 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "Duke Nukem Forever will come out before Doom 3." - George Broussard, 2002 (http://tinyurl.com/6m8nh) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQtRFVHcLPEOTuEwVAQEbOAf+L12iUs3dcSI438H6h5q3QYWvCl1yeqQi Lj0N1uIFTJjJTavUiOyPfwKO6OswVVCKfezukfHGlayaZ27yrry2O4PMMs33bwbP w7ueSJf8X0iHOQOX464/tI+DnIlzpnfLpT+TMHxot0XYB1WHa8nyfuFcZBHtTqrn 5/QdxXxR91RHAMFpAZjvMXfUyre0yQGqZCiqXtcEkBBMxN7NW6ATwojBXkg/cj/W jAj4T0iuIIe6CfKQyv/tzEBwgsucFSHkvLs4g8AWTco9bD2gjQMGDVn6aOsqzbu/ hbX6paEwa0Ygti6zxWO68BOx303p30yAGGdG4VNJGoYoEyNRLfd+LQ== =3zD3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
