#title: Poland and Software Patents #descr: Poland has taken a conservative approach to patenting and explicitely defined the %(q:technical invention) as %(q:use of forces of nature) in its patent law, and the Polish Patent Office (PPO) has been reluctant to grant software patents. Yet the choir of patent lawyers from large IT companies in combination with local patent lawyer interests, which has been chanting the %(q:TRIPs requires software patents) and %(q:We must follow the EPO practise) tunes, has had effects in Poland as well. The %(q:forces of nature) provision was recently deleted from the Patent Law. Meanwhile of the 35000 EPO software patents identified by FFII, only one belongs to a polish applicant, and that one is not even a software patent in the strictest sense. It is clear that the Polish local patent lawyers are not chanting Polish local tunes. # Local Variables: ; # coding: utf-8 ; # srcfile: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/phm/sys/mlht.el ; # mailto: mlhtimport@ffii.org ; # login: phm ; # passwd: YYYYY ; # feature: swpatdir ; # dok: swpatpl ; # txtlang: en ; # multlin: t ; # End: ;