Comments on: Europe and New Zealand Share a Software Patents Problem As Such http://techrights.org/2012/09/27/as-such-nonsense-swpats/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: saulgoode http://techrights.org/2012/09/27/as-such-nonsense-swpats/comment-page-1/#comment-133589 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:03:42 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=63053#comment-133589 This to me seems somewhat nonsensical from a grammatical standpoint.

The two clauses:

(1) A computer program is not an invention for the purposes of this Act.

(2) Subsection (1) prevents anything from being an invention for the purposes of this Act only to the extent that a patent or an application relates to a computer program as such.

Could more succinctly be written as (merely by directly incorporating the as such “exception” of the second clause into the first):

(1) As a computer program, a computer program is not an invention for the purposes of this act.

Such phrasing is nothing more than tautology; it does not make an “embedded computer program” any more, or less, patentable than a non-embedded computer program.

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