Par ailleurs, dans l'article annonçant la décision de la Cour d'appel de Karlsruhe que j'ai cité, il y a un paragraphe qui dit ça :
In 2007, the German Federal Patent Tribunal declared that the invention had no right to protection under European law, as it was not the result of an inventive step. The court found that the patented method had in particular already been suggested by specifications for the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol (RRIP) for reading files on CD-ROMs, the first version of which dates from 24th July 1991. The group behind the protocol took it upon themselves to extend the ISO 9660 standard for directory entries so that it would also be possible to access CD-ROM content using POSIX file system semantics. This, according to the court, involved determining the location in which a file is stored using the process described in the Microsoft patent. [3e paragraphe, les deux suivants éclaircissent la chose]
[^] # Re: on s'en moque
Posté par Malicia . En réponse au journal L'Empire contre-attaque. Évalué à 7.
In 2007, the German Federal Patent Tribunal declared that the invention had no right to protection under European law, as it was not the result of an inventive step. The court found that the patented method had in particular already been suggested by specifications for the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol (RRIP) for reading files on CD-ROMs, the first version of which dates from 24th July 1991. The group behind the protocol took it upon themselves to extend the ISO 9660 standard for directory entries so that it would also be possible to access CD-ROM content using POSIX file system semantics. This, according to the court, involved determining the location in which a file is stored using the process described in the Microsoft patent. [3e paragraphe, les deux suivants éclaircissent la chose]