| Florian Weimer 2004-12-27, 5:52 pm |
| >> You deleted the part about the patent on a transmission system
[vbcol=seagreen]
> as current EU legislation explicitly forbids software-patents[1] none of
> those are currently legal.
Quite a few European companies which have licensed those patents seem
to disagree.
> [1] In article 52 of the European Patent Convention of 1973 it is
> stated that mathematical methods, intellectual methods, business
> methods, computer programs, presentation of information etc are not
> inventions in the sense of patent law
Unfortunately, Article 52 doesn't state that these things cannot
infringe any patent claims, which is the more important thing for us.
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