The Technology Criterion in Patent Law: A Controversial but Indispensable Requirement - Couverture souple

Bakels, Reinier B.

 
9789058508621: The Technology Criterion in Patent Law: A Controversial but Indispensable Requirement
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9058508625 ISBN 13 : 9789058508621
Editeur : W.L.P. (Wolf Legal Publishers), 2012

Synopsis

Patenting allegedly non-technical subject-matter like software and business methods is controversial both from a political and a legal perspective. Political opinions about patents in these fields vary from "indispensable" to "disastrous". Lawyers complain about opaque rules that would violate statutes.

US law allows patents on non-technical subject-matter, but it excludes "abstract ideas", an exclusion that leads to remarkably similar controversies, again both at the political and the legal level.

Coincidentally, in 2010 both the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office and the U.S. Supreme Court addressed these problems, but unfortunately both failed to provide the clarification one had hoped for.

For all these reasons, the technology criterion in patent law is an almost ideal topic for a PhD research project, an exciting intellectual challenge at the same time fulfilling a topical social need.

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À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Patenting allegedly non-technical subject-matter like software and business methods is controversial both from a political and a legal perspective. Political opinions about patents in these fields vary from "indispensable" to "disastrous". Lawyers complain about opaque rules that would violate statutes.

US law allows patents on non-technical subject-matter, but it excludes "abstract ideas", an exclusion that leads to remarkably similar controversies, again both at the political and the legal level.

Coincidentally, in 2010 both the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office and the U.S. Supreme Court addressed these problems, but unfortunately both failed to provide the clarification one had hoped for.

For all these reasons, the technology criterion in patent law is an almost ideal topic for a PhD research project, an exciting intellectual challenge at the same time fulfilling a topical social need.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
W.L.P. (Wolf Legal Publishers)
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9058508625
ISBN 13 
9789058508621
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
275
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Personne responsable
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