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Costa Rica
In Costa Rica, the patent office grants software patents. This may be related to a "Free Trade" treaty signed (in 2009?) with the USA.
Legislation
Costa Rica prohibits patents on "programs for computers as such":[1]
2.- Para los efectos de esta ley no se considerarán invenciones:
a) Los descubrimientos, las teorías científicas, los métodos matemáticos y los programas de ordenador considerados aisladamente.
This is thus similar to the situation in most European countries.
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Discuss this wiki in Spanish
- as such - these words can make legislation meaningless
External links
- Spanish original: FSFLA discussion, May 2009 (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
- Spanish original: FSFLA discussion II, May 2009 (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
