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?
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 [...]
The debate, which raged for years, took an especially large since the European Commission presented a proposal for a directive on the patentability of inventions implemented by computer. ”
When a person or company develops new software, the question arises whether it can use the patent law to give protection considered stronger than the protection more [...]