| Mikael Pawlo on 23 Mar 2001 01:45:29 -0000 |
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| [Nettime-bold] Sweden is for software patents |
Sweden is for software patents Gnuheter reports (in Swedish) that the Swedish government will work together with the United Kingdom and France to make software patentable in the EC. Swedish Minister of Trade, Leif Pagrotsky, informed the Swedish EU council of the governments concerns and positive attitude towards software patents. The council is reported to have joined in on Pagrotskys and the governments views. The UK Patent office has already stated a clear support for software patents, however put very unclear in words: " The Governments conclusion is thus to reaffirm the principle that patents are for technological innovations. Software should not be patentable where there is no technological innovation, and technological innovations should not cease to be patentable merely because the innovation lies in software." Related links Gnuheter on the Swedish government and software patents (in Swedish only): http://www.gnuheter.com/article.php?sid=540 UK PTO on software patents: http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/conclusions.htm Slashdot on UK PTO decision (however with misleading subject line, in my opinion): http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/13/0043219&mode=thread Regards Mikael Pawlo Stockholm, Sweden _________________________________________________________________________ ICQ:35638414 mailto:mikael@pawlo.com +46-70 421 58 25 http://www.pawlo.com/ _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold