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“The FCA noted that the use of the terms ‘new and useful’ with the statutory categories of invention indicates that novelty may be relevant in determining whether an invention falls within the ...

Essenese Obhan, Sneha Agarwal and Anindita Goswami of Obhan & Associates analyse recent developments over obtaining patents for computer-implemented inventions Computers have come a long way from the ...

The EU has spoken: the directive for the patenting of computer-implemented inventions is dead. But that does not mean the end for software-related patents, as long as patent attorneys consider all ...

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“Both the High Court and the IPAB have declined to define the term ‘technical advancement’. Consequently, the position adopted by the High Court still stands…and the conundrum still remains ...

It’s possible, as some fear (and some popular movies have predicted), that computers will ultimately become self-aware and turn on their human creators. But if so, they must first establish that ...

The most common rejections of such inventions issued by the Mexican Institute of the Industrial Property (MIIP) make reference to a lack of a technical problem disclosed in the specification of the ...