Re: [Fsfe-uk] Software patent tactics

[Chris Lale]

I have now published a short article discussing the "technical effect" 
in the proposed EU directive on the patentability of 
computer-implemented inventions. It is illustrated with two examples - a 
film-music analogy and Dan Bricklin's views about patents linked to his 
computer-implemented invention of the spreadsheet.

http://coolscience.co.uk/free-software/software-patent-techeffect.html

Please feel free to use it when writing to MEPs etc.

Chris
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