U.K. judge frowns on software patents | CNET News.com

Copyright and intellectual property rights are an area my students and I discuss. Here is refreshing news from the U.K. and Europe where some of the patent and copright madness evident in the US is being questionned.U.K. judge frowns on software patents | CNET News.com: "'IP rights themselves may have reached a bit of a swing of opinion. One is detecting public disquiet in a number of areas of intellectual property, asking: Are we going too far? There's a serious worry about patent offices and how you stop them from granting pretty ropey patents,' he said." copyright