Re: [xml-dev] Re: Patents on XML software, file formats, schemas,vocabularies

[sterling <sstouden@thelinks.com>]

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On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, adasal wrote:

> Ken, the impression you give is that the UK no longer grants software patents.
> A search of the UK patent db with just the keyword software in the
> title field yields e.g.
> 
> 15                                      Thread monitoring using
> parallel buffers in multithreaded software
>                                                           Inventor:
> DAVID DAVID (IL)                    Applicant: MOTOROLA INC (US)
> 
>       		  Publication info: GB2421813A - 2006-07-05
> IPC: G06F11/36; G06F11/36
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> 16 Content encryption using programmable hardware or configurable software  	
> 	  	Inventor: HANKS DARWIN MITCHEL (US); DELORME ALEXANDRA (US)
> 	Applicant: HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO (US)
> 	  	Publication info: GB2403314B - 2006-07-12 	IPC: G06F21/00; G06F21/00
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> 19 Identity based encryption for software distribution
> 	  	Inventor: SRINIVASA GOPAL R (IN); BATHULA ANIL KUMAR (IN)(+1)
> 	Applicant: HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO (US)
> 	  	Publication info: GB2421097A - 2006-06-14 	IPC: G06F1/00; G06F1/00
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> 20 		Integrated electronic signatures for approval of process control
> and safety system software objects 	in my patents list
> 	  	Inventor: LAW GARY K (US); DEITZ DAVID L (US)(+2)  	Applicant:
> FISHER ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS INC (US)
> 	  	Publication info: GB2421332A - 2006-06-21 	IPC: G06F17/00 ; G06F9/445 (+6)
> 
> -----------------------------------
> 
> 21 	 	Methods, apparatus and software for printing location pattern
> and printed material
> 	  	Inventor: ENCRENAZ MICHEL (ES); LAMMENS JOHAN (ES)  	Applicant:
> HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO (US)
> 	  	Publication info: GB2420898A - 2006-06-07 	IPC: G06K15/02 ; G06K15/12(+2)
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 23  	 	Specialization of active software agents in an automated
> manufacturing environment
> 	  	Inventor: MATA GUSTAVO (US); NETTLES STEVEN C (US)(+2)
> 	Applicant: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC (US)
> 	  	Publication info: GB2404458B - 2006-06-14 	IPC: G05B19/418 ; G06F9/46 (+6)
> 
> -----------------------------------
> 
> Just to take a sample from this year. Without looking at the actual
> applications, this looks like software to me. What is more to the
> point, do you really think that the above such applications shouldn't
> be allowed?
> I am very enthusiastic about open source and my livelihood depends on
> it. Make no mistake, I depend on the collective effort and brilliance
> of other people, moreover I can see time and again that large software
> monopolies serve no one apart from those who own them. But I do think
> that fair effort deserves fair reward. I don't know how to distinguish
> when a software patent should be granted and when it shouldn't, but it
> is about this point I think the discussion should be focused, not
> trying to convince people that s/w patents are no more when, so far as
> i can see, that is just not the case.
> 
> Adam
> 
> On 18/07/06, Ken North <kennorth@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > adasal wrote:
> > >> ... Software can be patented in the UK as elsewhere.. At least give the
> > references.
> >
> > "EU: Commission confirms unpatentability of software"
> > http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/5611/194
> >
> > Noting that, under the new Regulation, computer programmes will be excluded from
> > patentability, it declared that patents already granted by the EPO could be
> > annulled by either national courts or the European Court of Justice.
> >
> > Indeed, the Commission's stance reflects reality. In recent months Poland's
> > patent office has refused to grant two patents to software protected by the EPO,
> > while the High Court of England and Wales ruled that two more granted by the EPO
> > were invalid on UK territory.
> >
> > There's also an earlier question and response about this issue here:
> >
> > European parliament
> > http://www.europarl.europa.eu/omk/sipade3?PUBREF=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+P-2006-1625+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&L=EN&LEVEL=2&NAV=S&LSTDOC=Y
> >
> > http://wiki.ffii.org/Gierek060413En
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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