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Software and Patents in Europe - Philip Leith

Software and Patents in Europe

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Buch | Hardcover
214 Seiten
2007
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-86839-6 (ISBN)
CHF 189,95 inkl. MwSt
By repackaging software as a 'device', patent attorneys have succeeded in getting protection for their clients. This text argues that this approach by the Patent Offices makes it difficult for competitors to assess what has been protected. If software is being protected, it should be examined and assessed as such.
The computer program exclusion from Article 52 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) proved impossible to uphold as industry moved over to digital technology, and the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO) felt emboldened to circumvent the EPC in Vicom by creating the legal fiction of 'technical effect'. This 'engineer's solution' emphasised that protection should be available for a device, a situation which has led to software and business methods being protected throughout Europe when the form of application, rather than the substance, is acceptable. Since the Article 52 exclusion has effectively vanished, this text examines what makes examination of software invention difficult and what leads to such energetic opposition to protecting inventive activity in the software field. Leith advocates a more programming-centric approach, which recognises that software examination requires different strategies from that of other technical fields.

Philip Leith is Professor of Law at The Queen's University of Belfast.

Introduction; 1. Software as machine; 2. Software as software; 3. Policy arguments; 4. Software patent examination; 5. Holding the line: algorithms, business methods and other computing ogres; 6. The third way: between patent and copyright?; 7. Conclusion: dealing with and harmonising 'radical' technologies.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.10.2007
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 490 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Wirtschaftsrecht Urheberrecht
ISBN-10 0-521-86839-4 / 0521868394
ISBN-13 978-0-521-86839-6 / 9780521868396
Zustand Neuware
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