Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Patents
- Gives inventor a
monopoly on an invention
for 2 years
- Invention
- new
- inventive (and non-obvious)
- capable of industrial
application
- Rights = inventor or
inventor's employer
- NOT AUTOMATIC
- Substantial Fee
- Can not be
patented in EU
or UK
- Presentation of
Information, e.g.
database
- Software, unless its a component of a
system which = patentable invention
- Difference between Copyright and Patents
- C protects a form in which
ideas are expressed, not the
ideas themselves
- P protects ideas (as
embodied in a specification
of an invention)