european patent office

Groklaw: "We looked at some amicus briefs submitted to the Supreme Court in support of the petitioners in In Re Bilski, so we have now a good idea of what the pro-patent forces think.

Then, as an antidote, we turned that page and read the letter that Donald Knuth submitted to the European Patent Office, expressing the view that mathematical ideas, or algorithms, should not be patented."

Open Enterprise: "Today Red Hat took its efforts to confront the problem of software patents to new ground by filing a brief with the European Patent Office.

The brief explains that software patents hinder software innovation, and that there is a sound legal basis not to expand availability of such patents in Europe."