[Gllug] Fwd: [opensuse] Invitation to OpenSUSE developers

[Jason Clifford]

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> There is a large list of patents covering MP3 which have been granted
> by the European Patent office and thus apply in the UK, even if the 
> UK patent office itself wouldn't typically grant them. I must admit
> though I'm a little fuzzy on how tenable these patants are given that
> the general concept of software patents was explicitly rejected in
> the EU last year.

That the patents office has accepted and granted a patent does not mean it 
is enforcable. EU law specifically rejects software patents and they are 
not covered under the CPDA.

Jason
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