Amazon patents shopper analysis system

The bill not allowing??

Just read this: "A claim to a computer program, either on its own or on a carrier, shall not be allowed unless that program would, when loaded and executed in a programmable computer, programmable computer network or other programmable apparatus, put into force a product or process claimed in the same patent application in accordance with paragraph 1." So, if you let a computer interpret the writing called a computerprogram, it can be patentable, since a computer does do something... As far as i know, thats the reason you write them, to have the computer do something, one does ceartainly not write them to be a novel. Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. I think that European member States should ensure, that patents do not limit or except the rights of authors in accordance to TRIPs article 13, that patents do not conflict with normal exploitation of data and information and do not prejudice legitimate interests of authors, that publication, handling and distribution of information, including loading and execution of computer programs and all effects thereof (a legit.interest of the author = the reason for writing), can never constitute a direct or indirect patent infringement. Also remember Turing, it has been known since 1936 that a Turingmachine can compute anything computable (programming languages are Turing complete). Hey, it is a computer, it computes, it is allredy known what it can do, an innvention must lie in new hardware, not in logic running existing hardware, you get an error if you try to run something it not allredy is designed to,... or more correct, have it calculating something that can not be calculated. Patents and copyright are completley uncompatible, patents stopping authors from publishing their own writings, like computer programs, have an expropriating effect on the future where authors cannot know that they fully own their legitimate rights to their own writings. Now.. how can an author be expected to get food on his table when he is not entitled his legitimate rights to his own writings? Authors will be made responsible for what some unknown third mans computer does, when this man, on his own initiative, let his computer interpret the authors published writing. Or.. plain ignorant users that just downloads something off the net can be accused of patent infringiment. Once again: Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works.

Posted by: Magnus S. 30 Jun 2005