Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261184AbVARIhQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:37:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261186AbVARIhQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:37:16 -0500 Received: from smartmx-01.inode.at ([213.229.60.33]:12957 "EHLO smartmx-01.inode.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261184AbVARIhM (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:37:12 -0500 Subject: Re: IBM Patents From: Bernhard Schauer Reply-To: schauer@acousta.at To: Bernd Petrovitsch , lkml In-Reply-To: <1105973138.28592.26.camel@tara.firmix.at> References: <1105973138.28592.26.camel@tara.firmix.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:37:10 +0100 Message-Id: <1106037430.7191.5.camel@FC3-bernhard-1.acousta.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 692 Lines: 18 > 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 ยง52(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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/