Good summary: "How To Design Around a Patent" [TacticalIP]

BastianBest.com | 18. März 2012 — ... to field [...] is whether or not it is permissible to design around a patent. The short answer is OF COURSE! How else is there to be progress? How else can inventions get improved? " Bastian Best ist einer der wenigen deutschen Patentanwälte mit Universitätsabschluss in Informatik. Durch dies…

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BGH Webseitenanzeige: German Federal Court of Justice raises requirements for software-related inventions to overcome exclusion from patent protection

KandidatenWiki | 15. Juli 2011 — ... ZR 121/09 – Webseitenanzeige), software-related inventions have to pass a two- ... features needed for a software-related invention to overcome the exclusion. The ... is not the case if the invention comprises instructions solving a specific ... test for many software-related inventions.…

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German Federal Court of Justice raises requirements for software-related inventions to overcome exclusion from patent protection

KandidatenWiki | 15. Juli 2011 — ... ZR 121/09 – Webseitenanzeige), software-related inventions have to pass a two- ... features needed for a software-related invention to overcome the exclusion. The ... is not the case if the invention comprises instructions solving a specific ... challenging test for many software-related …

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German Federal Court of Justice raises requirements for software-related inventions to overcome exclusion from patent protection

KandidatenWiki | 15. Juli 2011 — ... ZR 121/09 – Webseitenanzeige), software-related inventions have to pass a two- ... features needed for a software-related invention to overcome the exclusion. The ... is not the case if the invention comprises instructions solving a specific ... challenging test for many software-related …

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German Federal Court of Justice raises requirements for software-related inventions to overcome exclusion from patent protection

KandidatenWiki | 15. Juli 2011 — ... ZR 121/09 – Webseitenanzeige), software-related inventions have to pass a two- ... features needed for a software-related invention to overcome the exclusion. The ... is not the case if the invention comprises instructions solving a specific ... test for many software-related inventions.…

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Alles nur geklaut: Nestlé unter Plagiatsverdacht wegen BabyNes
Alles nur geklaut: Nestlé unter Plagiatsverdacht wegen BabyNes

DESIGNSCHUTZ news.de | 8. Juni 2011 — ... -Zeitung) an die Öffentlichkeit. Er hatte ein solches System als Vater zweier Kinder vor 6 Jahren selbst entwickelt, patentieren lassen und 2007 Nestlé präsentiert. 2007 gewann er beim Salon International des Inventions in Genf sogar einen Preis dafür. “Das ist doch meine Idee, ­Nestlé ha…

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Recent EPO Appeal Board Decisions Relating to Computer Implemented Inventions
Recent EPO Appeal Board Decisions Relating to Computer Implemented Inventions

Visae Patentes | 5. Februar 2011 — ... issue decisions relating to Computer/Software-Implemented Inventions (CII), often involving communication concepts or ... mobile telephone. The applicant considered the claimed invention allowable basically for two reasons: ... reaching a desired menu, and the invention provides "a si…

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Recent EPO Appeal Board Decisions Relating to Computer Implemented Inventions
Recent EPO Appeal Board Decisions Relating to Computer Implemented Inventions

Visae Patentes | 5. Februar 2011 — ... issue decisions relating to Computer/Software-Implemented Inventions (CII), often involving communication concepts or ... mobile telephone. The applicant considered the claimed invention allowable basically for two reasons: ... reaching a desired menu, and the invention provides "a si…

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NZ IPO Guidelines Try to Render
NZ IPO Guidelines Try to Render "Embedded Software" Patentable Without Specifying this Legal Term

Visae Patentes | 8. Januar 2011 — ... A computer program is not a patentable invention. The Select Commerce Committee, however, ... the Minister that companies investing in inventions involving "embedded" computer programs should be ... to obtain patent protection for these inventions (see related posting). Apparrently…

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The Top 10 Blog Postings in 2010
The Top 10 Blog Postings in 2010

Visae Patentes | 31. Dezember 2010 — ... EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal found Referral on Computer-Implemented Inventions Inadmissible (G 3/08) Former President of German Patent ... Decision of Federal Court of Justice on Software-Implemented Invention Controversially Discussed (BGH Xa ZB 20/08, "Dynamic ... patent p…

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US Board of Appeals (BPAI) Rejects Cryptographic Method as Abstract Idea
US Board of Appeals (BPAI) Rejects Cryptographic Method as Abstract Idea

Visae Patentes | 17. November 2010 — ... (BPAI) issued three interesting decisions relating to computer-implemented inventions in the US, namely (i.) Ex parte MacKenzie, ... on the digital signature algorithm (DSA)” and that the claimed invention is directed to software per se, abstract ideas, ... claimed method sets forth abstra…

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Technical Board of Appeal rejects Computer-implemented Invention in the field of Bioinformatics (T 784/06)
Technical Board of Appeal rejects Computer-implemented Invention in the field of Bioinformatics (T 784/06)

Visae Patentes | 4. November 2010 — ... the EPO approach towards computer-implemented inventions (although with some "twists"), as ... information on patenting of bioinformatics inventions can be found on Phamalicensing. ... features of a computer-implemented invention, since this term has not ... no concrete details. According t…

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Patentability Issues in the Annual Report 2009 of German Federal Patents Court
Patentability Issues in the Annual Report 2009 of German Federal Patents Court

Visae Patentes | 25. Oktober 2010 — ... blog, the section on computer-implemented inventions and the state of the ... An invention within the meaning of patent law is a teaching on ... patent protection is granted only for inventions in the field of technology. ... a matter of whether, as an invention, a claimed teaching is to ...…

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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 — ... and controversally discussed "1-click" invention entitled "method and system for ... business methods and computer-implemented inventions, according to which a claim ... , for determining whether some claimed inventions are processes under § 101” (slip ... the Industrial Age – for exampl…

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Latest Positions from Patent Judges' Symposium, EPO, EU Authorities, and AIPPI on Language Regime and Legal Compatibility of EEUPC

Visae Patentes | 25. September 2010 — ... the judges' position on the controversally discussed regulation of representation before the new court), the exclusion of patent protection for surgical, diagnostic and therapeutical methods, or the protection of computer-implemented inventions in the US and under the EPC. The EU Council's Dra…

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