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BLOG@IP::JURPatent Attorney Axel H Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property Law.
Thursday, February 19, 2004epoline-OLF Software is a Delphi Project tied to Microsoft Windows Platforms.In my earlier posting I had reported about the  open source approach taken by the EPO with regard to their epoline OLF software. Yesterday I talked to a software engineer who had inspected the source code more in detail. In fact, the software is written in a special flavour of Pascal, namely Delphi brought to market by Borland. Interestingly, there is also a Linux-compatible variant of Delphi available called Kylix. But the option to port the epoline software to Linux is effectively blocked by an immense number of calls to Microsoft-specific APIs in the epoline OLF code.
The PatTrAS software issued by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) has been coded in a much more compatible and platform-independent way. It is written in Java and seems to run quite well on a Linux computer having a Java Runtime Environment installed.
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