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...Withers & Rogers. The software patentability issue was referred to the...decision to refer the issue of software patentability to the Enlarged Board...consensus on the issue of software patentability. Secondly, the software... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/04/30/235867/dont-rock-the-boat-on-software-patents.htm
...deliver their benefits to customers. Open source and free software supporters fear that even this muted form of software patentability would, in the end, pull Europe in the direction of the US and Japan, where patents are granted for business... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2003/07/01/195667/eu-postpones-software-patent-law-review.htm
...software patents in the EU was controversial, despite the fact it does not substantially alter the current law on software patentability. The blueprint will give us some certainty about the future of software patents and an opportunity to set... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2003/09/05/197019/protect-your-intellectual-property.htm
...the European Union are heading for a collision with the European parliament over the shape of a proposed law on software patentability when they meet in Brussels this week. A new version of the law drawn up by the Irish government, which... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2004/05/17/202472/EU-ministers-face-clash-over-software-patents.htm
...Motorola mobile phone. Not content with paving the way for US-style, business-method patents and direct software patentability of computer programs, data structures and process descriptions, which will make it near impossible for smaller... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2004/09/24/205462/thought-for-the-daybrrights-management-who-needs.htm
...introduced in February 2002 by the European Commission (EC) to harmonise the approach of European courts to software patentability. While small software companies have argued that it would stifle innovation by allowing only the largest corporations... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2005/07/26/211034/european-no-to-software-patent-directive-leaves-doors-open-to-protection-of-new.htm
...angrily to the position taken by the Council of Ministers in May, which, they claimed, threw out all of the software patentability restrictions they included in the directive. Rocard, who drew up the parliament's culture committee... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2004/10/06/205737/eu-in-fighting-could-scupper-patent-legislation.htm

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...Since November 2006 the UK IPO has relied on a pair of landmark cases - Macrossan and Aerotel - for its approach to software patentability. In the Macrossan case, the Court of Appeal refused a patent for a program that simply allowed users to... http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39170019,00.htm

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...glosses over is that the provisions in the new directive significantly alter the legislation currently governing software patentability. Rather than vindicating the existing legal situation, the legislation is being recast in the image of the... http://oss.sgi.com/LDP/LDP/LG/current/lg_bytes.html
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