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2. Software patents under United States patent law - Wikipedia

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   Neither software nor computer programs are explicitly mentioned in statutory United States patent law.Patent law has changed to address new technologies, and decisions of the United States Supreme Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) beginning in the latter part of the 20th century have sought to clarify the boundary between patent-eligible and patent ...

3. List of software patents - Wikipedia

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   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 ]

4. Copyright on the content of patents and in the context of ...

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   [2] [7] The copyrighted work might consist of the written description for an invention or the drawings or photographs contained in the patent. [7] Likewise, the Office may register a claim to copyright in articles, publications, or other non-patent literature that may be submitted with a patent application. [7]

5. Software patent - Wikipedia

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   A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, library, user interface, or algorithm.The validity of these patents can be difficult to evaluate, as software is often at once a product of engineering, something typically eligible for patents, and an abstract concept, which is typically not.

6. United States patent law - Wikipedia

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   2014. The US Supreme Court limited patentability of business methods, software patents and other abstract ideas in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International albeit stopped short of banning such patents completely. 2014. In a move widely regarded as directed against patent trolls, the SCOTUS's decision in Octane Fitness, LLC v.

7. Software patents under the European Patent Convention

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   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.