Software is once again unpatentable in the United States

[Hans de Goede]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Matthew Woehlke
>> And it's ammunition for non-paid "patented" codec users to say (rightfully)
>> that the patents they are allegedly violating are, in fact, illegal.
> 
> Even if this was a clear cut KO of all software patents in the
> US..which it isn't... the problem is its not just US patent law.
> People like to pretend it is...but it isn't.  The police raids for mp3
> infringers at the German CeBIT conference will most likely happen
> again next year.
> 

That is just the German Border Cops being stupid (*) and acting on a not proven 
valid patent. The general legal opinion in the EU is still that software is not 
patentable, attempts have been made to change the law, but have sofar all been 
blocked by the EU parlement.

Note IANAL, this is my personal opinion, etc.

(*) and an Italian patent troll abusing this.

Regards,

Hans