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Unfortunately there are plenty of software patents in Europe. And patent lawyers are trying hard to establish a "unified patent court" so software patents can

• raverbashing 6y ago
  > Under the EPC, and in particular its Article 52,[1] "programs for computers" are not regarded as inventions for the purpose of granting European patents,[2] but this exclusion from patentability only applies to the extent to which a European patent application or European patent relates to a computer program as such. So, basically, you can't patent a program per se, but you can patent a "device" that uses the program. It is limited in scope
  • bonoboTP 6y ago
    Which in practice seriously means that software patents describe the von Neumann architecture and talk about how the RAM and CPU communicate, when it's actually about a high level software solution. It's also always called a "System and method for XYZ", implying the system is part of the invention. Really look up some patents freely available online, they all do this which is plain ridiculous.