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In Indonesia, the Patent Office (Direktorat Jenderal Kekayaan Intelektual, "Directorate General of Intellectual Property") is a governmental agency overseeing intellectual property rights (HKI). A public body carrying out this function has existed since Dutch colonial times.
This is a list of software patents, which contains notable patents and patent applications involving computer programs (also known as a software patent).Software patents cover a wide range of topics and there is therefore important debate about whether such subject-matter should be excluded from patent protection. [1]
The issue of novelty often arises during patent examination, because of inadvertent and/or partial disclosures by inventors themselves prior to filing a patent application. [citation needed] Unlike the laws of most countries, the US patent law provides for a one-year grace period in cases of inventor's own prior disclosure. [28]
Simple patent family: All patent documents have exactly the same priority date or combination of priority dates. [4] Extended patent family: All patent documents are linked (directly or indirectly) via a priority document belonging to one patent family. The extended families allow for additional connectors to link other than strictly priority date.
Like the other parts of the paragraph 2, computer programs are open to patenting to the extent that they provide a technical contribution to the prior art.In the case of computer programs and according to the case law of the Boards of Appeal, a technical contribution typically means a further technical effect that goes beyond the normal physical interaction between the program and the computer.
In the early 1990s, for example, Taiwanese original design manufacturers, such as Hon Hai, rapidly increased their patent filings after their US competitors brought patent infringement lawsuits against them. [6] They used the patents to cross license. One of the limitations of cross licensing is that it is ineffective against patent holding ...
The extent to which a partial priority can be acknowledged for a single claim in a patent application or patent -i.e., only for a part of the claim, for which the subject-matter is disclosed in the priority document- is a delicate question. [16] Decision G 1/15 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO deals specifically with this question.
A paten or diskos is a small plate, used during the Mass. It is generally used during the liturgy itself, while the reserved sacrament are stored in the tabernacle in ...