Intellectual Property and Patent & Trade Mark Protection

Intellectual Property and Patent & Trade Mark Protection

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  • Jane Lambert
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    Software Patents: Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents
    Our Court of Appeal delivered a very interesting in judgment in Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents[2008] EWCA Civ 1066 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2008/1066.html) yesterday where it seems to have rowed back a little from its previous decision in Macrossan [2007] RPC 7, [2006] Info TLR 215, [2007] Bus LR 634, [2007] 1 All ER 225, [2006] EWCA Civ 137 ( http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2006/1371.html) which had made it very difficult indeed to get a software patent in the UK. The CA seems to have made an effort to reconcile its jurisprudence with that of the EPO Technical Board of Appeal in Duns and Gameaccount.

    I have blogged this appeal at http://nipclaw.blogspot.com/2008/10/software-patents-here-we... if anybody is interested.
    This post was modified on 09 Oct 2008 at 11:37 am.
    • 09 Oct 2008, 11:37 am
  • Jane Lambert
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    Re: Software Patents: Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents
    Following on from my post on Symbian some years ago, there have been two recent decisions on the art 52 (2) exclusions which I have mentioned at http://nipclaw.blogspot.com/2012/01/patentability-of-compute...
    • 02 Jan 2012, 3:04 pm