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February 27, 2007 | Comments: (0)
UK reaffirms its stance on software patents ("Yankee patent system, go home")
The UK government yesterday re-affirmed its position on software patents: it doesn't like them, and won't enforce them.
The Government remains committed to its policy that no patents should exist for inventions which make advances lying solely in the field of software. Although certain jurisdictions, such as the US, allow more liberal patenting of software-based inventions, these patents cannot be enforced in the UK....Stiff upper lift wins out in the end. Silliness continues to reign supreme here in the US regarding software patents.The Government will...continue to exclude patents from areas where they may hinder innovation: including patents which are too broad, speculative, or obvious, or where the advance they make lies in an excluded area such as software.
Posted by Matt Asay on February 27, 2007 09:28 AM
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As silly as software patents are...there is a sillier patent type: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_method_patent
Wouldn't that have been fun if a Red Hat or JBoss or someone decided to have done that back in the day huh?
Posted by: Andy at March 2, 2007 04:40 AM
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