Patent laws are different in many countries, and inventors are sometimes at a loss to understand which basic requirements should be satisfied if an invention is to be granted a patent. This is particularly true for inventions implemented on a computer. While roughly a third of all applications (and granted patents) relate, in one way or another, to a computer, applications where the innovation mainly resides in software or in a business method are treated differently by the major patent offices in the US (USPTO), Japan (JPO), and Europe (EPO).
The authors start with a thorough...
Patent laws are different in many countries, and inventors are sometimes at a loss to understand which basic requirements should be satisfied if an...
Daniel Closa, Alex Gardiner, Falk Giemsa, Jörg Machek
Patent laws are different in many countries, and inventors are sometimes at a loss to understand which basic requirements should be satisfied if an invention is to be granted a patent. This is particularly true for inventions implemented on a computer. While roughly a third of all applications (and granted patents) relate, in one way or another, to a computer, applications where the innovation mainly resides in software or in a business method are treated differently by the major patent offices in the US (USPTO), Japan (JPO), and Europe (EPO).
The authors start with a thorough...
Patent laws are different in many countries, and inventors are sometimes at a loss to understand which basic requirements should be satisfied if an...
