On Friday 13 August 2010 01:12:59 Pranesh Prakash wrote: > On Wednesday 11 August 2010 12:05 AM, jtd wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 August 2010 16:09:33 Krithika wrote: > >> The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is filing a pre-grant > >> opposition to a software patent application by Microsoft. > > > > As an adhoc measure too it will wind up as agreeing in principle > > to software patents. The patent law is explicit in not allowing > > software patents. The "per se" term is (imo) a qualifier to the > > next parts which state that a programmable machine with software > > does not qualify. > > Slight confusion here; which other next part are you referring to? > Section 3(k) of the Patent Act reads: > 3) The following are not inventions within the meaning of this Act: > (k) a mathematical or business method or computer programme per se > or algorithms.
I dont remember the exact words of the relevant clauses in the act, but there is a sentence which specifies "software running on a general purpose computer or programming machine". Again i cant recollect the exact sentences. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
