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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.
SimCity is a city-building and urban planning simulation massively multiplayer online game developed by Maxis Emeryville and published by Electronic Arts.Released for Microsoft Windows in early March 2013, [2] it is a reboot of the SimCity series, and is the first major installment since the release of SimCity 4 a decade before.
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.
Oh, EA. After a few weeks of continued issues with their big urban planning game, the company unveiled which games were going to be made free to anyone who purchased SimCity before May 25th.
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] However, there is no ...
For most folks, it seems, to attempt to play the brand new SimCity is still an exercise in futility. As of this writing, the long-awaited city-builder's persistent servers (required even for solo ...
As a mea culpa for SimCity's disastrous debut, Electronic Arts offered a number of free titles as compensation.Reading other SimCity reviews, I caught on to a kind of collective fondness for the ...
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.