Re:A patent lawsuit against GNOME
by antisemiotic on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:00AM
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What about just losing software patents altogether? Sorry, but from my perspective on the other side of Atlantic, it looks like a yet another example of "there's no way to avoid this - says the only country where this happens".
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They have software patents in many (most? all?) EU countries. The only thing they don’t have is patents on software code itself, which the US doesn’t really have either. See: https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/11/15/epo-publishes-revised-...
The main criteria in the EU is whether the method embodied in the software is “technical.” (Image recognition as opposed to say a business method.) See: https://mewburn.com/resource/patentability-of-business-metho...
In the US, under Alice, Section 101 has morphed into a very similar analysis.