Comments on: Class Headings Dispute: Heavy Weather Ahead For OHIM http://blog.ksnh.eu/en/2011/11/29/class-headings-dispute-heavy-weather-ahead-for-ohim/ Intellectual Property Observations Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:31:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Gibus http://blog.ksnh.eu/en/2011/11/29/class-headings-dispute-heavy-weather-ahead-for-ohim/#comment-185 Gibus Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:05:11 +0000 http://blog.ksnh.eu/en/?p=1301#comment-185 General Advocate Yves Bot has also issued today his Opinion on Case C‑406/10, which is about Council Directive of 14 May 1991 on the legal protection of computer programs, see http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/gettext.pl?lang=en&num=79888870C19100406&doc=T&ouvert=T&seance=CONCL What do you think about his opinion that: "57. To accept that a functionality of a computer program can be protected as such would amount to making it possible to monopolise ideas, to the detriment of technological progress and industrial development."? Doesn't it remind you something about arguments against software patentability? General Advocate Yves Bot has also issued today his Opinion on Case C‑406/10, which is about Council Directive of 14 May 1991 on the legal protection of computer programs, see http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/gettext.pl?lang=en&num=79888870C19100406&doc=T&ouvert=T&seance=CONCL

What do you think about his opinion that: “57. To accept that a functionality of a computer program can be protected as such would amount to making it possible to monopolise ideas, to the detriment of technological progress and industrial development.”?

Doesn’t it remind you something about arguments against software patentability?

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