Posts Tagged European

New guidelines software patents in European Patent Office

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 [...]

Vertalingen protocol European patents in force (finally)

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 [...]