![]() | This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||
|
Can anyone cite a source for this:
It shouldn't in the article otherwise. Furthermore, the view that EICTA's construction of the expression "software patent" is narrow is actually very subjective, since there is no universal agreed definition of the expression. I removed both paragraph. -- Edcolins 20:08, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
The term "technical" is not defined in the Commission and Council versions of above-mentioned directive, however.
"Technical contribution" is defined as a "contribution in a field of technology", so that doesn't really help much without a definition of "technical" or "technology". Additionally, that definition continues:
This means that "the scope of the patent claim considered as a whole" must comprise technical features, but that the technical contribution itself does not have to be technical (regardless of what (non-)definition of technical you use). E.g., suppose the claim as a whole is "a computer executing program that does X, where X is a novel and non-obvious algorithm applied to processing text", then the difference between the state of the art (a computer) and and the patent claim considered as a whole is "a program that does X". This will then be the "technical contribution", even though even the EPO considers processing text not technical. It's valid because the claims as a whole still contain technical features (the computer).
-- Jonas Maebe
Recent edits remade the lead to be a near copy of 2013 docs and the current official website http://member.digitaleurope.org/website/home.aspx. Some of what was there before also appears to have been copied, or at least a very close paraphrase (the 2012 statement of vision and mission are copied from http://www.digitaleurope.org/Ourwork.aspx). So I took it out and replace it with a copyvio tag as suggested at Template:Copyvio and WP:Copyright problems#Instructions. If someone knows of a suitable license from the originator we can put it back. Or someone can rewrite it. Dicklyon ( talk) 20:08, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Both the old and the new copied parts were put in by users with digitaleurope in their user names, so they may be attempting to represent the organization. If so, they should be able to get the organization to provide the required license, perhaps. Dicklyon ( talk) 20:14, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on DigitalEurope. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 13:07, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
![]() | This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||
|
Can anyone cite a source for this:
It shouldn't in the article otherwise. Furthermore, the view that EICTA's construction of the expression "software patent" is narrow is actually very subjective, since there is no universal agreed definition of the expression. I removed both paragraph. -- Edcolins 20:08, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
The term "technical" is not defined in the Commission and Council versions of above-mentioned directive, however.
"Technical contribution" is defined as a "contribution in a field of technology", so that doesn't really help much without a definition of "technical" or "technology". Additionally, that definition continues:
This means that "the scope of the patent claim considered as a whole" must comprise technical features, but that the technical contribution itself does not have to be technical (regardless of what (non-)definition of technical you use). E.g., suppose the claim as a whole is "a computer executing program that does X, where X is a novel and non-obvious algorithm applied to processing text", then the difference between the state of the art (a computer) and and the patent claim considered as a whole is "a program that does X". This will then be the "technical contribution", even though even the EPO considers processing text not technical. It's valid because the claims as a whole still contain technical features (the computer).
-- Jonas Maebe
Recent edits remade the lead to be a near copy of 2013 docs and the current official website http://member.digitaleurope.org/website/home.aspx. Some of what was there before also appears to have been copied, or at least a very close paraphrase (the 2012 statement of vision and mission are copied from http://www.digitaleurope.org/Ourwork.aspx). So I took it out and replace it with a copyvio tag as suggested at Template:Copyvio and WP:Copyright problems#Instructions. If someone knows of a suitable license from the originator we can put it back. Or someone can rewrite it. Dicklyon ( talk) 20:08, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Both the old and the new copied parts were put in by users with digitaleurope in their user names, so they may be attempting to represent the organization. If so, they should be able to get the organization to provide the required license, perhaps. Dicklyon ( talk) 20:14, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on DigitalEurope. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 13:07, 25 December 2017 (UTC)