Software and Patents in Europe

Klappentext This 2007 text advocates revisions to the existing system for patenting software in Europe. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Philip Leith, Philip (Queen''s University Belfast) Leith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521329620
• ISBN: 978-0-521-32962-0
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Cambridge Intellectual Propert
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law