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By Daniel Closa, Alex Gardiner, Falk Giemsa, Jörg Machek

Patent legislation are various in lots of international locations, and inventors are often at a loss to appreciate which simple necessities may be happy if an invention is to be granted a patent. this is often really actual for innovations carried out on a working laptop or computer. whereas approximately a 3rd of all functions (and granted patents) relate, in a single manner or one other, to a working laptop or computer, purposes the place the innovation ordinarily is living in software program or in a enterprise strategy are taken care of otherwise by way of the foremost patent workplaces within the US (USPTO), Japan (JPO) and Europe (EPO).

The authors begin with a radical advent to patent legislation and practices, and to similar highbrow estate rights, additionally explaining the methods on the USPTO, JPO and EPO, and, specifically, the peculiarities within the remedy of purposes centring on software program or pcs. in keeping with this theoretical description they then current, in a really based approach, a accomplished set of case experiences from differing parts together with company equipment, databases, graphical consumer interfaces and electronic rights administration. every one set begins with a quick description and declare for the "invention", explains a patent examiner’s most likely arguments, then ultimately refines step-by-step to prevent easy reservations opposed to the content material. All of those case stories are in response to real-world examples, and should hence supply an green developer a robust feel of the extent of technical element and outline that are supposed to be supplied.

Together, Closa, Gardiner, Giemsa and Machek have greater than 70 years event within the patent enterprise. With their educational backgrounds in physics, electronics engineering and desktop technological know-how, they understand either the felony and the technological subtleties of computer-based innovations. With this publication, they supply a advisor to a patent examiner’s state of mind in a transparent and systematic demeanour, aiding to organize the 1st steps in the direction of a profitable patent program.

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In such a case, provided the technical means per se are known (any computing means), the objection would probably be raised that no technical problem exists and that therefore Article 56 is not satisfied. If, on the other hand, it is specified in the claim how the mental act is to be implemented, the technical problem could then well reside somewhere in the implementation itself. What will then have to be investigated is whether the technical implementation of such a method is obvious to a person skilled in the technical art [24].

The validity of the “machine-or-transformation” test is in the process of being reviewed by the US Supreme Court [1]. C. 101. This means the machine or transformation should impose meaningful limits on the method claim’s scope to pass the test. An example of a method claim that would not qualify as a statutory process would be a claim that lists purely mental steps. To then qualify as a statutory process, the claim would have to positively recite the particular machine to which it is tied, for example by identifying the apparatus that accomplishes the method steps, or positively indicate the article that is being transformed, for example by identifying the material that is being changed to a different state.

24 1 Introduction practical application and, in the words of the State Street opinion, “produces a useful, concrete and tangible result”. Although apportioned considerable importance at the time, the principle turned out to be only temporary. The test was found to be inadequate by a later decision, issued in 2008. The CAFC’s decision in that case, In re Bilski [28], was that the “machine-or-transformation” test set out by the Supreme Court would be the proper test to apply. That decision has been used in order to clarify the guidelines for the handling of business method patents.

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