A comprehensive introduction to the technology and application of computers in law. It assumes no prior knowledge of computing, but covers all the key issues associated with information technology and its relevance to legal issues and practice.
A comprehensive introduction to the technology and application of computers in law. It assumes no prior knowledge of computing, but covers all the key...
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...
The computer program exclusion from Article 52 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) proved impossible to uphold as industry moved over to digital t...
