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  2. 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.

  3. Patent drawing - Wikipedia

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    Unlike utility patents, applications for design patents rely fully on the drawings. According to USPTO guidelines, "the drawing disclosure is the most important element of the application," and the drawings in design patent applications "constitute the entire visual disclosure of the claim."

  4. epoline - Wikipedia

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    epoline [1] is a set of web-based computer programs and services enabling applicants, patentees and their representatives to file patent applications online before the European Patent Office (EPO), as well as to monitor the status of patent applications during their prosecution and patents during an opposition.

  5. Proposed directive on the patentability of computer ...

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    On 20 February 2002, the European Commission initiated a proposal [1] for a directive to codify and "harmonise" the different EU national patent laws and cement the practice of the European Patent Office of granting patents for computer-implemented inventions provided they meet certain criteria (cf. software patents under the European Patent Convention).

  6. 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.

  7. Software patent - Wikipedia

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    A software patents law in Thailand has been controversial debates among the economists and national developers’ overtime since there were two significant developments in the international patent law; (1) the European Union's attempt to harmonize national patent laws by the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and Council on the ...

  8. Espacenet - Wikipedia

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    Espacenet (formerly stylized as esp@cenet) [1] [2] is a free online service for searching patents and patent applications.Espacenet was developed by the European Patent Office (EPO) together with the member states of the European Patent Organisation.

  9. European intellectual property law - Wikipedia

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    The European patent system offers the home of the world patent system. Venice in 1474 [1] and the British Monopoly Law in 1623, [2] contributed to the earliest patent system. . The development of the European patent system stands for the pioneer and epitome of the evolution of the international patent system; it is the ultimate goal to establish a globalized unified (single) patent syst

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