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In October 2008, the president of the [[European Patent Office]] referred question "'''G3/08'''" to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeals, asking for clarifications regarding exclusion of "programs for computers" from patentability under Article 52 of the [[European Patent Convention]].<ref>http://www.epo.org/topics/news/2008/20081024.html</ref>  As part of the referral process, a public consultation was held which ended on April 30th 2009.<ref>http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/B89D95BB305AAA8DC12574EC002C7CF6/$File/G3-08_en.pdf G3/08</ref>
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In October 2008, the president of the [[European Patent Office]] referred question "'''G3/08'''" to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeals.  The purpose was to ask for clarifications for interpreting the exclusion of "programs for computers" from patentability under Article 52 of the [[European Patent Convention]].<ref>http://www.epo.org/topics/news/2008/20081024.html</ref>  As part of the referral process, a public consultation was held which ended on April 30th 2009.<ref>http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/B89D95BB305AAA8DC12574EC002C7CF6/$File/G3-08_en.pdf G3/08</ref>
  
 
You can see the submitted briefs here: '''[[Briefs submitted to EPO EBA G3-08]]'''.
 
You can see the submitted briefs here: '''[[Briefs submitted to EPO EBA G3-08]]'''.

Revision as of 02:57, 1 October 2009

In October 2008, the president of the European Patent Office referred question "G3/08" to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeals. The purpose was to ask for clarifications for interpreting the exclusion of "programs for computers" from patentability under Article 52 of the European Patent Convention.[1] As part of the referral process, a public consultation was held which ended on April 30th 2009.[2]

You can see the submitted briefs here: Briefs submitted to EPO EBA G3-08.

For the previous discussions on how best to reply to the public consultation (now closed), see EPO G3-08 brainstorming.

External links

epo.org links

After receiving the responses to the consultation, the EPO published information to repeat its claim that it doesn't grant software patents:

References

  1. ↑ http://www.epo.org/topics/news/2008/20081024.html
  2. ↑ http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/B89D95BB305AAA8DC12574EC002C7CF6/$File/G3-08_en.pdf G3/08
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