Alison Brimleow President of the European Patent Office referred the question of patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions (often referred to as Software Patents) in 2008. Yesterday, May 12th, the Enlarged Board of Appeal handed down their decision and rejected the opportunity to change the EPO’s practice in relation to CII’s. Thus applications that are Computer-Implemented and have a technical effect will continue to be accepted. More detail on the decision can be found at http://www.epo.org/topics/news/2010/20100512.html
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Richard O’Connor – Partner
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