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Laukev7

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Software patents approved by the EU parliament.
« on: 24 September 2003, 18:20 »
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/09/24/1253227.shtml?tid=155&tid=185&tid=99

They did bring some amendments, though. Fortunately, it might not be as crazy as in the United States.

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Software patents approved by the EU parliament.
« Reply #1 on: 25 September 2003, 02:05 »
The biggest amendment covered "real inventions" and not business, models and arbitrary things the y seem to patent and subsequently fight over in the US.
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Software patents approved by the EU parliament.
« Reply #2 on: 25 September 2003, 02:12 »
so... this is what I understand... you can patent your own way of doing something, say...

You devise a system that can get 5% more performance from a card's 3d processor. you can patent your code, but not the idea of it?

someone else could come and create their own way of doing a similar task, but you can't bust them, because they have their own code and did it on their own?
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