Patentability of Software - Software As Mathematics

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Anton Hughes, Anton (Maurice Byers Chambers Hughes, Hughes Anton
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781138240599
• ISBN: 978-1-138-24059-9
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property; Routledge Research in Intellectual Property
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Programming languages; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / General, LAW / Science & Technology, LAW / Intellectual Property / Patent, Legal aspects of IT, Patents law, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, IT and Communications law / Postal laws and regulations, IT & Communications law