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 such” - and, more importantly, there is then something like “software is not as such”? (more…)

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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 and that can English, French and German read. The extract is intended for the ordinary reader. But good. (more…)

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