Judge frown upon software patents

Software patents is a troubling issue and last year it became a really hot topic when a directive to allow this was presented to the European Parlament. Thank God it was rejected, but this will most likely not end there but the lobby organisations will keep trying to get a new directive back up there. British judge Sir Robin Jacob, who specializes in intellectual-property law, held a speech for “Society for Computers and Law” in London where he commented on this. He says that there is very littly point with these patents and wonder why we should even bother. Above all he questions how we will be able to keep track of the patents and where to draw the lines.

He is also, as are many others, sceptical to how EU is trying to adapt the same misterious system that the U.S. uses:

“The United States takes the view that anything made by man, under the sun, can be patented. And they have granted patents for business methods, mainly computer business methods. But as far as I can see, it would cover a new and improved method of stacking oranges on a barrel,”

Source: news.com