The Patentability of Software: Software as Mathematics

ISBN-13: 9781032241418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 246 str.

Anton Hughes

Opis

This book explores the question of whether software should be patented. It analyses the ways in which courts in the US, the EU and Australia have attempted to deal with the problems surrounding the patentability of software.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The nature of software

2 Why software patents are a problem

3 The nature of mathematics

4 Why mathematics is not patentable

5 Why programming is not among the useful arts

6 Implications

Conclusion

Index

O autorze

Anton Hughes has a doctorate in patent law and currently practices as a barrister in Sydney, Australia.