On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:38:45AM -0800, J. Andrew Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:22:58 +0200 > >Many countries do not grant software patents so it is not > >likely > >that IBM applied through PCT since a refusal in one > >country may > >cause to patent to be refused in all countries. > > > Contrary to popular misconception, virtually all countries > grant software patents. The problem is that people have
Thanks to the new European Union member Poland, the Dutch plan to put the software patents on the agenda 3 days before Christmas was revoked. So no software patents in Europe for now. (and the opposition against it seems to grow!) -- __________________________________________________ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" Reinoud van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xs4all.nl/~reinoud __________________________________________________ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
