On Monday 27 December 2004 14:58, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> You deleted the part about the patent on a transmission system
> >> involving compression. The relevant European patents are EP 0400755,
> >> EP 0402973, EP 0599824 and EP 0660540.
> >
> > 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.
You lost me there:
how can something that's explicitly excluded from being covered by patents
possibly infringe a patent?
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Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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