tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post6858137117757599603..comments2024-03-28T16:45:51.051+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Friday fantasiesVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-37503683788950387902010-10-16T20:06:50.458+01:002010-10-16T20:06:50.458+01:00Re: "Software patents are not the flavour of ...Re: "Software patents are not the flavour of the month in New Zealand".<br /><br />Of course a computer program is not a patentable invention. A printed patent specification is also not a patentable invention. Both are merely ways of describing and defining an invention. There are many inventions, and some are patentable. The computer program may be the most concise way of expressing the subject matter.<br /><br />It is so hard for everybody to understand the simple fact that we distinguish between those inventions that are patentable and those that are not. An invention may be patentable even without a filed application, but we cannot be certain until after application and prosecution. An invention that has been disclosed publicly before an application has been filed will in most cases by definition not be patentable any more. It can no longer be protected.<br /><br />When patent people encountered plant breeder's rights the expression used for the protected subject is "variety". However that term denotes the cultivar that has already passed the stage of examination. Confusingly (to patent people) there are no unprotected varietes, and that had derailed many a discussion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com