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+-   UK High Court Allows Software Patent Claims on Friday January 25 2008, @06:26PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 25 2008, @06:26PM
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An anonymous reader writes "The IPKat reports that an appeal to the British High Court against rejection of software patent applications has been accepted:

In a surprising (to this Kat at least) turn of events, the Honourable Mr Justice Kitchin has ruled today that the current UK Patent Office practice of flatly rejecting patent claims to computer program products is wrong... Kitchin J found that the appeals should be allowed. Each application concerned a computer related invention where the examiner had allowed claims to, in effect, a method performed by running a suitably programmed computer and to a computer programmed to carry out the method... The cases were remitted to the UK-IPO for further consideration in light of the judgment.
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