On 14/06/07, Mark Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's worth remembering in all this that Canonical has some huge > advantages in NOT being based in the US. > > There are three massive differences between Patent law in the US and > Patent law in Europe. One of them is that there are a whole bunch of > things (software mainly) that ARE patentable in the US, but cannot be > patented in Europe. >
I agree with the rest of what you said, Mark, but software can be patented in Europe. The circumstances are much more limited than in the US, but it's not a definite 'cannot'. Just FYI. Hwyl, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
