scope of patent

Several things are excluded from the scope of patent law.

There is no need for the scope of patent law to be extended to cover computer programs.

The territorial scope of patent protection is determined by the application procedure.

"How Broad should the Scope of Patent Protection Be?"

Until recently, Parliament, which favors tightly limiting the scope of patent protection for software-related inventions, appeared at loggerheads with the 25 national governments of the union.

It also shows the different scope of patent law compared with copyright law, because patent law can protect purpose whereas, generally, copyright law cannot.

Section 41 of the Patent Act restricted the scope of patents "relating to substances prepared or produced by chemical processes and intended for food or medicine."

However, that number does not correspond to an increase in innovative activity, therefore giving us cause for concern over an extension of the scope of Patent Office subject matter.

China essentially agreed to adopt most international standards for foreign inventions, and will enact laws that extend the duration and scope of patent, copyright and trade-secret protections.

"But the long-term prospect restricts the scope of patents because it presumes the appeals court decision is what is in effect, and gives some inventors a chance to prove otherwise."

On the contrary, he said, the court seems interested in reinforcing the broad scope of patent law by removing some of the limits set on math algorithms and natural phenomena.

Time and again there have been attempts to limit or even to reduce the scope of patent rights by overloading the Directive with rules which have no basis in patent law.

It may now be easier to obtain a patent for an invention which includes a computer program despite the apparent exception of computer programs from the scope of patent law.

The case resulted in the United States Patent and Trademark Office issuing new proposed software patent guidelines which expanded the scope of patent protection for software.

A special type of consulting is patent strategy and management consulting or simply patent consulting which specifically emphasizes on the scope of patent rights versus R&D in industry.

Computer equipment may be designed in such a way that it is aesthetically pleasing as well as functional, there may be something novel about the design which falls short of the scope of patents.

However, in practice, this uncertainty continues, given that this directive is in conflict with the principles of the Convention on the granting of European patents, expanding the scope of patents beyond currently established limits.

It seems likely that the Supreme Court will use at least one of these two cases as an opportunity to rein in the Federal Circuit, which has dramatically expanded the scope of patents in the last two decades.

The decision held that "field-of-use limitations" on the scope of patent licenses to make and sell a product were enforceable, by way of a patent infringement suit against a licensee that violated the limitation and a company collaborating with it.

After the heavily modified draft directive was finally rejected, EICTA's Director General said, "This is a wise decision that has helped industry to avoid legislation that could have narrowed the scope of patent legislation in Europe.

The Xiph.Org Foundation has not released an official statement on the patent status of Vorbis, pointing out that such a statement is technically impossible due to the number and scope of patents in existence and the questionable validity of many of them.