Re: [Fsfe-uk] Software patent

[Alex Hudson]

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 22:03 +0100, P.L.Hayes wrote:
> http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=EP1192615&F=0
> http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP1192615
> 
> Ian doesn't seem to be interested in third party opposition and I
> don't blame him but it looks to me as though the EPO is going to
> disallow this despicable patent anyway.

Hm. That's not totally surprising - they seem to have just filed the
same document, which doesn't even attempt to paint itself as something
they could pass.

If you want the EPO to rubber-stamp your software patent, step one is
providing them an excuse. They seem to have failed even that step.

Cheers,

Alex.