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The European Patent Office and its Approach to 'Software Patents' including some comparative Comments on the German PTO's Practice

Visae Patentes | 24. Januar 2012 — ... are “devaluated”. EPO Legal Foundations (Boards of Appeal Case Law): EPO Case ... , providing legal certainty for applicants of software inventions. Thus, in this ... 4/07 ("glass bottle analysis system") of 4 February 2010 (comments) Xa ... approach to examination patent-eligibility of …

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Case Law of the EPO Boards of Appeal on Patentability of Computer-related Inventions: An Overview
Case Law of the EPO Boards of Appeal on Patentability of Computer-related Inventions: An Overview

Visae Patentes | 9. August 2011 — ... titled "EPO Case Law on Patentability of Software Inventions From the 80ies ... law blog, I provide a summary of a working session on “Patentability ... at the EPO” held by Mr. Dai Rees – Chairman of an EPO ... board and member of the Enlarged Board of Appeals that issued the ... (cf. Spec…

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Federal Court of Justice Confirms Turnaround Towards EPA Patentability Approach (X ZR 47/07)

Visae Patentes | 18. März 2011 — ... data structure, where under the influence of a coordinate transformation the display ... 03 ("Rentability Determination") the Federal Court of Justice held that a method ... method steps relating to the representation of easy-to-recognise information, however, ... the claimed teaching. W…

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Divisional Application of Amazon's One-Click EP Patent Dismissed in Appeal (T 1244/07)
Divisional Application of Amazon's One-Click EP Patent Dismissed in Appeal (T 1244/07)

Visae Patentes | 9. Februar 2011 — ... to the server system, comprising the steps of: sending from the client system a ... client system. According to the summons, the Appeal Board preliminarily agreed with the Examination ... a server system a client identifier of the client system; persistently storing the ... …

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Divisional Application of Amazon's One-Click EP Patent Dismissed in Appeal (T 1244/07)
Divisional Application of Amazon's One-Click EP Patent Dismissed in Appeal (T 1244/07)

Visae Patentes | 9. Februar 2011 — ... to the server system, comprising the steps of: sending from the client system a ... client system. According to the summons, the Appeal Board preliminarily agreed with the Examination ... a server system a client identifier of the client system; persistently storing the ... …

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System for Financial Transactions Allowed by EPO Boards of Appeal (T 1051/07)
System for Financial Transactions Allowed by EPO Boards of Appeal (T 1051/07)

Visae Patentes | 29. Dezember 2010 — ... 07, the EPO's Technical Board of Appeal 3.4.03 decided ... a transaction between a bank account of the subscriber and intermediate accounts ... organisational, procedural or administrative aspects of financial transactions involving a mobile ... respect to inventive step, the Board found t…

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Status of Amazon's Controversial "One-Click" Patent in Canada, the US, and Europe

Visae Patentes | 23. Oktober 2010 —According to Amazon's well-known and controversally discussed "1-click" invention entitled "method and system for placing a purchase order via a communication network", easy internet shopping is enabled in that a customer visits a website, enters address and payment information and is given an ident…

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Status of Amazon's Controversial
Status of Amazon's Controversial "One-Click" Patent in Canada, the US, and Europe

Visae Patentes | 23. Oktober 2010 — ... , however, the patent-eligibility requirements of "technical features" (Europe), "practical embodiment ... patentable subject-matter. The Commissioner of Patents' (second-instnace) decision on ... transformation” test as in violation of the expansive interpretation which should ... Law Pr…

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T 1423/07 - Double Patenting is Possible According to the EPC
T 1423/07 - Double Patenting is Possible According to the EPC

Visae Patentes | 10. Mai 2010 — ... 1 clearly distinguishing the subject-matter of the respective claim from that of ... (by confirming the designation through payment of the relevant designation fees) and ... and disagreed the above-sketched Board of Appeal case law, since, firstly, ... the Contracting States that the refu…

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