Z:gnu-www-ja-software-patents--d51885-Changing the criteria for issu/en

Changing the criteria for issuing patents or simply keeping a good criteria for issuing patents, can work in a country which has not authorized software patents before, for instance, for the most part, in Europe. Simply to clearly re-enforce the European Patent Office's rules which say that software is not patentable. This is a good solution for Europe. Europe is now considering a directive on software patents. The directive I suppose may be broader than that but one of its important implications is for software patents. Simply by modifying this to say software ideas cannot be patented will keep the problem out of Europe for the most part, except for some countries that may have admitted the problem on their own. Unfortunately one of them being the UK. Unfortunately for you.