Re: IBM Patents

[Bernhard Schauer]

> And almost all of them are pure software-patents and probably prior art.
> Thus they are - at least in Europe - not relevant and actually illegal
> if you believe in the current European patent law as defined by the
> European Patent Convention (see Â52(2) for details).

Hopefully nothing will change in future! Except the European Patent
Office should stop to give away software patents (even if they have no
legal basis).

regards

Bernhard

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