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EU 2005 proposed amendments
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In July 2005, the European Parliament was scheduled to vote for a second time on the EU software patents directive. The coalition against software patents proposed 21 amendments:
The result of the vote was that the proposed directive was completely scrapped, so these 21 amendments were not voted on but they're useful because they represent the most developed legal wordings of the EU software patents directive campaign.
What is patentable
To exclude software ideas from patentability, a few terms had to be defined and a few clarifications had to be inserted, so there's no one sentence for excluding software ideas from patentability. However, by combining the core amendments, the definition ends up as:
- "In order to be patentable, any invention, in the sense of patent law, the performance of which involves the use of programmable apparatus must make a contribution to the state of the art in a field of technology. The contribution is the set of features by which the scope of the patent claim as a whole is considered to differ from the state of the art. The contribution must be technical, that is, comprise technical features and belong to a field of applied natural science. The technical contribution must be new and not obvious to the person skilled in the art."
Other details
Definition of computer
- "A “computer” is a realisation of an abstract machine, consisting of entities such as processing units, storage space and interfaces for information exchange with external systems and human users. “Data processing” is calculation with abstract component entities of computers. A “computer program” is a data processing solution which can, once it has been correctly described, be executed by computers."
Related pages on ESP Wiki
External links
- The 21 amendments
- Earlier anti-swpat amendments suggestions from February 2002
- Article by Polish Patent Law Professor Aurelia Nowicka, analysing the the 21 amendments
