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

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   A patent applicant may include a copyright notice or mask work notice, but only if it also includes the following authorization, expressly permitting the reproduction of the patent: [9] A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to (copyright or mask work) protection.

3. Field-of-use limitation - Wikipedia

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   A field-of-use limitation is a provision in a patent license [1] that limits the scope of what the patent owner authorizes a manufacturing licensee (that is, a licensee [2] that manufactures a patented product or performs a patented process) to do in relation to the patent, by specifying a defined field of use—that is, a defined field of permissible operation by the licensee.

4. Software patents and free software - Wikipedia

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   Probably the most successful was the anti-software-patent campaign in Europe that resulted in the rejection by the European Parliament of the Proposed directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions which, the free software community argues, would have made software patents enforceable in the European Union.

5. Patentable subject matter in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title. and, thus, does not say what is patent-eligible and what is not, US courts felt that some inventions should ...

6. 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 ...

7. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

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   There are licenses accepted by the OSI which are not free as per the Free Software Definition. The Open Source Definition allows for further restrictions like price, type of contribution and origin of the contribution, e.g. the case of the NASA Open Source Agreement, which requires the code to be "original" work.