Examples of use of Pure Software
1. Smaller companies are particularly concerned that the new directive might allow patents on "pure" software simple lines of code that make up, for example, Microsoft‘s Windows operating system.
2. Though the draft directive explicitly excludes patents on pure software, critics feel the proposal‘s language is too hazy to exclude that threat.
3. You are still going to have the European Patent Office and the UK Patent Office issuing patents on pure software, but it is not likely that they would stand up in court," he added.
4. However, the directive quickly fell hostage to the furious debate over whether inventions that rely on software – let alone pure software such as Microsoft‘s Windows operating system – should be patentable at all.