Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Matthew Woehlke
And it's ammunition for non-paid "patented" codec users to say (rightfully)
that the patents they are allegedly violating are, in fact, illegal.
Even if this was a clear cut KO of all software patents in the
US..which it isn't... the problem is its not just US patent law.
People like to pretend it is...but it isn't. The police raids for mp3
infringers at the German CeBIT conference will most likely happen
again next year.
That is just the German Border Cops being stupid (*) and acting on a not proven
valid patent. The general legal opinion in the EU is still that software is not
patentable, attempts have been made to change the law, but have sofar all been
blocked by the EU parlement.
Note IANAL, this is my personal opinion, etc.
(*) and an Italian patent troll abusing this.
Regards,
Hans
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