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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/sony_refused_p2p_patents/ Although the grounds for refusal appear weak: not because each application is clearly a piece of (garbage) "software for a computer-as-such" but because the entire programme is installed on both sides of a P2P connection and therefore runs on "a" computer! I have no idea how this is meant to reflect on client-server programmes. It appears to allow for patents on "asymmetric" programmes where the patent application covers both the client and the server and where functionality is only available when both client and server can communicate over a network. Basically, any server software that cannot be tested from that server (i.e. a server programme that does not provide a localhost client, even for debugging.) So, on the one hand the rejection is welcome but, as ever, clarity has not been achieved. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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