Apparently bad news on EU patents

[yotambien]

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010...-software.html

[pingufunkybeat]

Unfortunately, it was only a matter of time.

[yotambien]

Bah...

...

Yes. Thinking about it, I'm not really surprised, given the incredible amount of bullshit that's going on lately about everything. Not just computery crap, I mean.

Agh :/

[yossarianuk]

That doesn't mean the EU - just Germany (at present)

The last software patent vote was overwhelmingly against.

[rbmorse]

That doesn't mean the EU - just Germany (at present)

The last software patent vote was overwhelmingly against.

What about the third bullet point in the "In a nutshell" section of the linked article? I'd say the EU position (or at least that of the bureaucrats in Brussels) is still murky, but it appears they are consolidating toward a stance that favors software patents.

[trepo]

What about the third bullet point in the "In a nutshell" section of the linked article?

Saw this on Groklaw a few days ago:

http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010...n-the-epo.html

"The bottom line for the time being is that the status quo will be maintained."

Not that the status quo is any good, but still better than the US...

[anny]

This is really a bad news... sh**

[Babuloseo]

Germany.... World War 1 World War 2.. World War 3??

I have no idea.....
TROLLPOWERFTW!!

[kazetsukai]

Insanity.
"...the highest German appeals court in matters of civil and criminal law overruled the country's highest patent-specialized court and decided that a client-server software for the automatic generation of structured documents (such as XML or HTML) is an example of a patentable software invention."
That covers what, every web technology on the planet?