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Patent protection strategies explained
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| Fabrice Mattei and Prasit Siricheepchaiyan
| of Rouse review trends in drafting, filing
| and prosecuting patents in Thailand
|
| [...]
|
| One way of getting around the medical
| method claims issue is to rewrite them as
| Swiss claims such as "use of substance X
| in the manufacture of a medicament for the
| treatment of condition Y". It is
| permissible under the current Thai patent
| practice so long as the method of
| treatment is not a pure treatment method,
| for instance the method of using a scalpel
| during surgery.
|
| * iii) Computer software. While it is
| not possible to obtain a patent on
| software per se, patents may be
| granted for inventions requiring the
| use of software to achieve their
| purpose. This, however, is conditional
| on the software having a technical
| effect when the programme is run. Such
| effect may, for example, be found in
| the control of an industrial process
| or in the internal functioning of the
| computer itself.
| * iv) The Thai Patent Act does not
| explicitly exclude business methods
| from patentability and it is debatable
| whether business methods are
| patentable under the Thai Patent Act.
| Arguably, Thai patents for pure
| business methods would not be granted
| because they cannot satisfy the
| meaning of invention under the Patent
| Act. According to Section 3 of the
| Patent Act, invention means any
| innovation or invention, which creates
| a new product or process, or any
| improvement of a known product or
| process. Furthermore, the Patent Act
| defines process as "any method, art or
| process of producing, maintaining or
| improving the quality of a product,
| including the application of such
| process". A pure business method is
| neither a product nor a process of
| producing, maintaining, or improving
| the quality of a product under the
| meaning of Section 3.
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http://www.managingip.com/Article/2577356/Patent-protection-strategies-explained.html
Why Patents are Like Black Holes
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| These cases show yet again why patents
| just don't do what they are supposed to -
| encourage innovation - but act as very
| serious threats to other companies that
| *are* innovating. As more and more of
| these software stars die, so the number of
| patent black holes will increase, and with
| them the unworkability of the patent
| system. Time to reboot that particular
| universe...
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-patents-are-like-black-holes.html
Courthouse News Service
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| Ablaise Ltd. can no longer demand that Dow
| Jones & Co. pay for its patented
| technology for personalizing content on
| websites, the 9th Circuit ruled.
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http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/03/27795.htm
Recent:
Open-source software suites pre-installed in local PCs
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| In a bid to promote the wider use of open-source software in Thailand, the
| National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec) has joined five
| local computer manufacturers to pre-install open-source software suites in
| personal computers.
|
| The five companies are SVOA, D Com, Synnex (Thailand), IT Bakery and Powell
| Computer.
|
| Nectec's director Pansak Siriruchatapong said Nectec was developing and
| customising open-source software suites for the local-brand PC companies,
| including the operating system Ubuntu Linux and applications such as Open
| Office, Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software.
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http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/02/10/technology/technology_30095272.php
Related:
Thailand: Egat turns to open source to cut costs
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| There are 7,000 PC units based on Open Office or 70 per cent of all 12,000 PC
| units in the organisation.
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http://nationmultimedia.com/2007/08/28/technology/technology_30046747.php
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