Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: > Adam Borowski wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:14:04AM +0200, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: >> > Of course. The German Supreme Court however has the same >> > interpretation of "software as such" as the European Patent Office. >> >> This means that they completely disrespect Article 52 [1]. However, >> their intepretation is a minority. > > The German Supreme Court is the final instance for interpreting > patent law in Germany. So at least they're a powerful minority.
More powerful than the US situation, where the current law is determined by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in clear *violation* of US Supreme Court precedent. The Supreme Court is hearing a case soon; if we're lucky, the US might slash away some of the patent thicket. > I'm not going to redo the whole debate here; I just tried to > explain why someone called Germany a rogue country even though > its patent law is an almost-literal copy of the EPC. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
