Re: Re: Copyright status of early Internet RFCs

Patentability in this arena is a huge topic. However I think the argument is not about computer code as such but rather implementation forms. Europe is struggling with the question of patentability of computer programs and Australia (my base) keeps revisiting the issue (latest seems to be that one needs some computer involvement in any claim set). My understanding re the USA is that there is no constraint as such re patentability simply because it is a computer program. The acceptability of a thinking step in the USA does add a interest and I gather this question is currently being litigated in the USA.
Howard Schulze
On 14/04/2006, at 4:15 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:

> Karen Coyle wrote:
>
>> This seems a bit odd to me in a world where computer code is
>> copyrightable.
>
> A related question quickly... can computer code be patented in the
> USA? I know in ZA you can't patent software, but you can copyright
> it. What is the situation in the USA?
>
> Samuel
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