TY  - GEN
N2  - "The computer program exclusion from Article 52 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) proved impossible to uphold as industry moved over to digital technology, and the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO) felt emboldened to circumvent the EPC in Vicom by creating the legal fiction of 'technical effect'. This 'engineer's solution' emphasised that protection should be available for a device, a situation which has led to software and business methods being protected throughout Europe when the form of application, rather than the substance, is acceptable. Since the Article 52 exclusion has effectively vanished, it is timely to reconsider what makes examination of software invention difficult and what leads to such energetic opposition to protecting inventive activity in the software field, Leith advocates a more programming-centre approach, which recognises that software examination requires different strategies from that of other technical fields."--Jacket.
AB  - "The computer program exclusion from Article 52 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) proved impossible to uphold as industry moved over to digital technology, and the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO) felt emboldened to circumvent the EPC in Vicom by creating the legal fiction of 'technical effect'. This 'engineer's solution' emphasised that protection should be available for a device, a situation which has led to software and business methods being protected throughout Europe when the form of application, rather than the substance, is acceptable. Since the Article 52 exclusion has effectively vanished, it is timely to reconsider what makes examination of software invention difficult and what leads to such energetic opposition to protecting inventive activity in the software field, Leith advocates a more programming-centre approach, which recognises that software examination requires different strategies from that of other technical fields."--Jacket.
T1  - Software and patents in Europe /
AU  - Leith, Philip,
AU  - Leith, Philip,
CN  - KJE2725
CN  - KJC2751
ID  - 24039
KW  - Computer software
KW  - Patent laws and legislation
KW  - Patents
KW  - Copyright
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Brevets d'invention
KW  - Logiciels.
KW  - Logiciels
SN  - 9780521868396
TI  - Software and patents in Europe /
ER  -