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DGMarkt Consultation 2000PbT ConsultantsGünther SchölchBrian KahinEuroLinuxGI e.V.

CEC Software Patent Consultation 2000 Submissions: GE Int

patent lawyers of the legal department of General Electrics (US corporation) applaud in the name of their European Affairs Office, explain that software is equivalent to hardware and just one technology like any other and that the TRIPS treaty demands that patents must be available for all technologies.

author:
GE Int
Date of Submission:
2000
files:
coppenholle.pdf and local copy



[ European Consultation on the Patentability of Computer-Implementable Rules of Organisation and Calculation (= Programs for Computers) | PbT Consultants 2001: Summary Report on EU Software Patentability Consultation | Günter Schölch: Comments on the Consultation Paper | CEC Software Patent Consultation 2000 Submissions: GE Int | Eurolinux Alliance 2000-12: Submission to the EC Consultation on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Rules of Organisation and Calculation (Programs for Computers) | German Informatics Corporatists worried about Systematics of Patent Law: GI Position Paper on Patentability of Computer Implementable Rules of Organisation and Calculation ]
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