In which countries there are software patents?

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From: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1992 16:02

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In article <kr5m6jINN643@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, chased@rbbb (David Chase) writes:
>Unless the (international) patent law has changed recently, it's too
>late already.  The US has a one year grace period, but many other
>countries do not.  (But you mentioned a GATT treaty -- is a uniform
>grace period part of the changes?)

Do any other countries besides US and UK accept or support software
patents?  I know that in Finland patents for software are not granted
and many countries in the international WIPO patent harmonization
negotiations have opposed the stand U.S. is taking that patents should
be allowed "on all fields of technology".

//Jyrki

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