:IT Week: Lords Refuses to Hear Software Patent Appeal
IT Week: Lords Refuses to Hear Software Patent Appeal Feb 8, 2007, 19 :00 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (5607 reads) (Other stories by James Murray)
"The confusion surrounding the UK's position on software patents looks set to continue after a ruling in the House of Lords yesterday. The Law Lords refused Australian businessman Neal Macrossan leave to appeal against a court decision last year that his invention of an automated system that compiles the necessary documents for incorporating a company in the UK could not be patented.
"A patent application for the web-based system had been rejected by the Court of Appeal in October on the grounds that it was a 'business method' and a 'computer program,' both of which cannot be patented under patent law..."
