The European Commission brings back software patents, this time through a via a centralized patent court, the European and Community Patents Court (draft agreement).
This court – if the draft will get approved at the next competitiveness meeting of May 28-29 – will have exclusive jurisdiction in respect of patent infringements.
The Software Patents war is finally over, glad open source cluster technology made it possible.
Brussels & Munich, 1st April 2009 — After years of confidential work, the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) today announce a radical way to improve software patent quality: Binaries-As-Prior-Art, or BAPA. BAPA combines a database of billions of compiled computer programs (“binaries”) with a powerful Cloud search engine that can find any invention in microseconds.
Wonderfull fish, Roberto 🙂
Chief Engineer B.U. Scotty, eh?
Beam me up!
Hello, from Maine –
While much of the text was beyond me (being a 71 year old Pianola roll arranger), I got the gist and was aware of the lawsuits via articles in The Register (U.K.).
Thanks to your sharing that URL I gained a little more understanding of this emerging field.
Best wishes, Douglas
Dear Douglas, I fooled you apparently, but you are not the only one! Few IT people asked before, kudos to FFII friends to have written such a good fool of April!
I must admit this is the only April’s Fool that actually started fooling me. Very well done, FFII! And Thanks Roberto for sharing! 🙂
Roberto Galoppini, 
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