FFII: Software Patents in Europe via caselaw of a Central Patent Court http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-166603/ffii:software-patents-in-europe-via-caselaw-of-a-central-patent-court Posts in the discussion thread "FFII: Software Patents in Europe via caselaw of a Central Patent Court" - “We must moreover continue to attempt to harmonise the practise of granting patents for computer-implemented inventions at the European level. This is to be attempted by a common European patent court system (EPLA) in which the member states can voluntarily participate. Thereby a unified procedure and legal certainty are achieved.” --German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-166603#post-524206 FFII: Software Patents in Europe via caselaw of a Central Patent Court http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-166603/ffii:software-patents-in-europe-via-caselaw-of-a-central-patent-court#post-524206 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:49:28 +0000 zoobab 2946 "“We must moreover continue to attempt to harmonise the practise of granting patents for computer-implemented inventions at the European level. This is to be attempted by a common European patent court system (EPLA) in which the member states can voluntarily participate. Thereby a unified procedure and legal certainty are achieved.” —German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology"

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