UKPO Workshops Find EU Patent Directive Faulty

TheEvilOverlord writes "ZDNet has up a report about the current EU patent directive not being up to muster; 'Workshops held by the UK Patent Office (UKPO) around the country have found that the definition of technical contribution in the software patent directive would let through too many patents'. Unfortunately the UKPO can't change the government's stance of supporting this destructive directive."

Technical Shmecnical

[pieterh]

Software patents are evil. The pro-monopoly lobby is using weasel words like "technical" to hide a loophole through which one can drive freight trains. 50,000 software patents have already been granted by the EPO on this flmsy basis. If you think your softare is protected by copyright, think again - the EPO, backed by legalistic mumbo-jumbo like "technical" has sold your work under the counter to a patent attorney.

Software patents are theft. No two ways about it. Patenting ideas and literary expressions is theft. Expropriation. Corruption.

The lady, and she knows who she is, who invented this particular weasel word will go down in history as a villain.