ITWeb: Local firms involved in producing new software must educate themselves about patents
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Started by: zoobabzoobab
Date: 15 Apr 2009 20:27
Number of posts: 1
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Summary:
As has been said earlier, the extent to which software is patentable is evolving constantly and varies from country to country, and there is no certainty as to what the final position will be. There is a general consensus that the present lack of certainty regarding software patents is harmful and that this needs to be clarified as quickly as possible. Particularly in the US and Europe, various parties are lobbying for various amendments to the legislation. Some want the scrapping of the relevant restrictive sections in the legislation so that all kinds of business methods and computer software will always be patentable as long as they are new and inventive.
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