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Wolfgang Tauchert

Head of the department at the German Patent Office that started to grow from near zero to several thousand applications per year when the German courts began emulating the EPO in allowing software patents. Tauchert supported this trend by articles in various journals which argue in the same direction. In his interpretation, only source code is 'as such' while object code and algorithms are 'not as such'. His view has received great attention due to his position, and since Mr. Tauchert usually does not shun the efforts needed to found it on learned reasoning, he can be characterised as the "chief ideologue for technicity questions at the German Patent Office".
[----- WOLFGANG TAUCHERT _____]Chief of Department of Data Processing and Information Storage at the DE-PTO Tauchert has a clear opinion on swpat: "startups more than anyone need the protection of patents", he says. And: "The opponents of patents are pursuing selfish interests, namely the unlimited access to the intellectual property of others" and "software patents do not need an economic justification. The market has already decided. More than a 1000 companies of all kinds apply for patents at our office every year and we finance ourselves without tax money." "Software patents show their economic relevance and meaning precisely when they hurt."
Laut Tauchert ist nur im Quelltext eines Programms das Programm als solches zu sehen, und Art 52.2c EPÜ will nur das Zitieren von Quelltext in Patentansrpüchen unterbinden. Programmbezogene Binärdateien, Algorithmen, Funktionalitäten usw sind hingegen keine Programme als solche und daher patentierbar. Diese Sichtweise des DPMA-Softwarepatentexperten und heutigen BPatG-Richters erfreut sich unter Patentanmeldern und Patentjuristen großer Beachtung, zumal Tauchert sie mit beeindruckender Quellengelehrsamkeit vorträgt.
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