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Publications - Newletters and Briefing Notes
Electronics & Communication
Features:
- What is an invention? - Requirement for "technical character" reviewed
- The Board of Appeal summarized the principles which apply under the EPC in the following terms:
- - Examination for "technical character" - strictly separate from examination of other requirements of patentability
- - Claims having a mixture of technical and non-technical features - permissible, but novelty and inventive step can only be based on technical features
- - The "contribution approach" of Aerotel/Macrossan - rejected
- What is an Invention?
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Features:
- Welcome to www.haseltinelake.com!
- UK Patent Office Opinions
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Features:
- Update on patenting computer-implemented inventions at the EPO
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Features:
- Patenting business methods and computer programs at the EPO
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Features:
- How Linux tried to be free, but got caught in a tangled web of IP rights
- Free software is not outside the usual ambit of IP rights
- What are the implications for UK companies?
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Features:
- Use of patents in connection with Internet is controversial
- Patents can be obtained for inventions which use the Internet
- Amazon.com's "One Click" patent hasn't closed off all on-line retailing competition.
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