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Software and patents in Europe / Philip Leith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leith, Philip, 1954- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge intellectual property and information law ; 9.
- Cambridge intellectual property and information law ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer software--European Union countries--Patents.
- Computer software.
- Computer software--Law and legislation--European Union countries.
- Patent laws and legislation--European Union countries.
- Patent laws and legislation.
- Computer software--Law and legislation.
- Patents.
- European Union countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Software & Patents in Europe
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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. 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.
- Contents:
- Software 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511495267
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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