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100 1 _aLeith, Philip,
_d1954-
245 1 0 _aSoftware and patents in Europe /
_cPhilip Leith.
_helectronic resource
260 _aCambridge, UK ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2007.
300 _aviii, 203 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aCambridge intellectual property and information law
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 2 _aSoftware as machine -- Software as software -- policy arguments -- Software patent examination -- Holding the line: algorithms, business methods and other computing ogres -- The third way: between patent and copyright? -- Conclusion: dealing with and harmonising 'radical' technologies
520 _aThe 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. Since the Article 52 exclusion has effectively vanished, this text examines what makes examination of software invention difficult and what leads to such energetic opposition to protecting inventive activity in the software field. Leith advocates a more programming-centric approach, which recognises that software examination requires different strategies from that of other technical fields.
530 _aTable of contents also issued online.
650 0 _aComputer software
_zEuropean Union countries
_vPatents.
650 0 _aComputer software
_xLaw and legislation
_zEuropean Union countries.
650 0 _aPatent laws and legislation
_zEuropean Union countries.
830 0 _aCambridge intellectual property and information law.
856 _uhttps://portal.knchr.org/Library/My%20eBooks/Software%20and%20patents%20europe.pdf
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