Software and Patents in Europe
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...
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| Định dạng: | Sách |
| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35596 |
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| Thư viện lưu trữ: | Thư viện Trường Đại học Đà Lạt |
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| Tóm tắt: | 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. |
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