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Author Kruspig, Sabine, author

Title Legal protection for computer-implemented inventions. A practical guide to software-related patents. / Sabine Kruspig; Claudia Schwarz
Published Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands : Wolters Kluwer : Kluwer Law International [2017]

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Description xxvi, 344 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction -- Basics of computer science and protection of software -- Patenting software : obstacles and challenges -- Legal practice on computer-implemented inventions at the EPO -- Germany -- United Kingdom -- France -- United States of America -- China -- Korea -- Japan -- India -- Patent Cooperation Treaty : PCT -- Unitary patent and Unitary Patent Court -- Summary : international comparison
Summary Legal Protection for Computer-Implemented Inventions' provides an overview of the current status of computer-implemented inventions in patent law across Europe and major jurisdictions worldwide. As a result of the incorporation of computer software into countless commercial and industrial products, the patentability of software has become a vital issue in intellectual property law. This book, a hugely practical field research tool with guidance based on case law, examines the major hurdles in each particular country and describes the best practice to be adopted. The authors describe claim formulation based on actual cases and on principles of computer science in order to show what might or might not be patentable in each jurisdiction.00Clearly showing how enforceable software patent applications can be competitively drafted and how a patent portfolio for computer-implemented inventions can be established in several countries without spending money unnecessarily on problematic examination proceedings, this book covers such issues and topics as the following:00- claim categories for patent applications;0- sufficient level of abstraction/breadth of the claimed invention;0- fundamental terms of computing and terminological traps;0- probability for patents dependent on software application areas; and0- patents in core areas of computing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Computer programs -- Patents.
Computer software -- Patents.
Patent laws and legislation.
Author Schwarz, Claudia, author
ISBN 9789041152299 (hardcover)
9041152296 (hardcover)