When software is patentable? Where is software patentable? With this question the struggling European Patent Office (EPO) for many years. With this question the struggling European Patent Office (EPO) for many years. The problem is that the European Patent Convention says that “software as such” no patent may be granted, but what is “software as [...]
Copyright and patent law are two very different things. Copyright you get automatically on any text you write, while you only get patents on inventions that are new and inventive, and even then only on request. And there is still an interesting meandering in the law: is the text of a patent protected by copyright?
Finally. European patents are no longer fully in the Dutch should be translated into Netherlands valid. Who gets an English European patent only need to have the claims (”conclusions”) in the Dutch to deliver. I’ve never understood why the claims and not, for example, the extract, for interpreting claims it you do need a patent [...]
The specialist judges of the Court of Appeal (BPAI) of the U.S. Patent Office (USPTO) have been appointed in a manner contrary to the U.S. Constitution. Their statements are therefore null and void. This may cover more than 95% of the rulings of the BPAI. That writes Professor John Duffy (Chicago) in a paper that [...]