{"id":124,"date":"2007-02-28T09:44:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T09:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/28\/british-governments-stance-on-software-patents\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T09:45:18","slug":"british-governments-stance-on-software-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/28\/british-governments-stance-on-software-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"British governments stance on software patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has issued its response to a recent e-petition calling for &#8220;the Prime Minister to make software patents clearly unenforcible&#8221;.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.number-10.gov.uk\/output\/Page11077.asp\">Here&#8217;s the actual details of the petition<\/a> which also contains the governments response and a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk\/independent_reviews\/gowers_review_intellectual_property\/gowersreview_index.cfm\">Gowers Report on Intellectual Property<\/a> which the response refers to.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s currently more flawed, the idea of Software Patents, or the laughable, and often corrupt, process through which they are granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has issued its response to a recent e-petition calling for &#8220;the Prime Minister to make software patents clearly unenforcible&#8221;. Here&#8217;s the actual details of the petition which also contains the governments response and a link to the Gowers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/28\/british-governments-stance-on-software-patents\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}