Theo Gottwald * <The### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> He said something like that "Computer software algorhytms are like
> mathematical laws.
>                                            They do not get created by
> someone. Someone finds out that they work.
>                                            How can you get the owner of a
> natural law ?"

  This is one of the principles in most European patenting offices.
You can only patent devices which use laws of nature, you can't patent
the laws of nature themselves.

  Unfortunately European patenting offices are fastly moving towards the
US patenting system.

  (It's curious that this is happening already. The patent office of the
European Union (or whatever it's called) has already conceded something
like 30000 patents which are against the patenting laws of European
countries. These patents probably can't withstand a lawsuit, but unfortunately
this is probably going to change soon...)

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