28 Oct
2005
28 Oct
'05
10:36 p.m.
Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote:
there is no such thing as a (legally) patented algorithm in europe (yet).
Actually, there is. Software is currently patentable, if it is integral part of a technical invention. However, this is very widely interpretable. An user interface can be (and has been) interpreted as a method to use a monitor, making it patentable. Clarifying this in one or the other way was goal of the EU software patents fight, and since the whole thing was canceled, the status quo hasn't changed.
See: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/de/m/politics/current.html http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/politics/current.html
Cheers,
Udo