[sclug] Personalised web content filtering

[Neil Brown]

Quoting Stuart Ward <stuart.ward at bcs.org>:

> No matter how good your implementation is software patents are not
> valid in Europe, and so anyone is free to re-implement your system and
> compete.

Software *as such* is an excluded subject matter for the purposes of  
English and EU patent law - but there are plenty of examples of  
patents which cover software, and likely many more arguments as to  
what "as such" means :)


Neil


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