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A Unified European Patent System - The Historical Perspective
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| The idea of creating a single patent court
| for Europe in order to improve legal
| certainty as well as to reduce costs is
| inextricably intertwined with the idea of
| creating a unitary trans-national patent
| which has the same legal effect all over
| Europe and which goes well beyond the
| European bundle patent of our days. Without
| such new substantive patent law, any attempt
| to bundle the procedural aspects of
| litigation and nullity matters will surely
| be futile. When assessing the chances for a
| unification of patent courts in Europe we
| will have to look at the history and
| prospects of both ideas. If there is no
| unitary substantial patent law in Europe
| there will also be no European patent court.
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http://www.ipjur.com/blog2/index.php?/archives/138-A-Unified-European-Patent-System-The-Historical-Perspective.html
Kochhar & Co starts South India drive with two lateral partners
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| He explained that he also expected changes in
| regulations that would soon permit software
| patent filing without independent of hardware
| patents, which would be a large growth area.
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http://www.legallyindia.com/20100216497/Law-firms/kochhar-a-co-starts-south-india-drive-with-two-lateral-partners
Recent:
Leveraging Through Software Patents
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| In recent years, the United States Patent
| and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a
| rapidly increasing number of patents for
| software-related inventions.
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| In recent years, the United States Patent
| and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a
| rapidly increasing number of patents for
| software-related inventions. According to
| the Software Patents Institute in the United
| States, thousands of âtrue software patentsâ
| are issued every year, covering such areas
| as business software, expert systems,
| compiling functions, operating system
| techniques, and editing functions. At the
| same time, software technology has continued
| to advance, using combinations of previous
| advances in order to create new goods,
| services, and production processes.
|
| Regardless of oneâs opinion on the issue of
| whether software-related patents are good or
| bad for society, the fact remains that a
| rapidly increasing number of software
| companies are filing software-related patent
| applications every day. This creates a need
| for software companies to begin developing
| programs and procedures to protect their
| intellectual property through the patent
| system.
|
| India is emerging as a world leader in the
| field of software technology. The IT
| software and services industry in India
| grossed an annual revenue of Rs. 37,760
| crore (US$ 8.26 billion) during 2000-01,
| according to the annual industry survey
| released by the National Association of
| Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM),
| the apex body of software, e-commerce and IT
| services industry in India.
|
| [...]
|
| Contrary to popularly held belief that
| software related patents are not permitted
| by Indian Patent Office; there are several
| instances where software related patents
| have been granted by the Indian Patent
| Office. One example is the Software related
| patent no 176178 granted to IBM, USA for
| âSystem for Creating an Application Program
| Packageââ by the Indian Patent Office.
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http://downloadedsoftware.org/leveraging-through-software-patents
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