December 31, 2013

Revised Draft Manual: A case of over simplification re software inventions

Leave a Comment / Patent Law & Practice, Software Patents / By ipmetrix / Business method patent, Computer program, Indian Patent Office, Invention, Inventive step and non-obviousness, Patent, Patentability, United States

The Indian patent office has published a revised draft manual on 04 November 2010. This manual is a revised version of the previous draft manual published in 2008. It is in this context that we revisit the requirements for patentability of software. Draft Manual, 2008: Section 3 of the Indian patent act provides exclusions covering the subject matter that …

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Intellectual Property in the “cloud”ed era

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Traditionally, computing has been done at defined and identified locations. For example, our computers, laptops, mobile phones, hosted servers, and so on. Cloud computing deviates from traditional computing by providing an abstraction layer on top of the various resources (like development/deployment of an application, processing instructions, and data storage) required in computing. By abstraction, I refer to …

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Application claims for claiming a software based system

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With respect to protection of software based inventions, the different subject matters that are of primary interest for inventors in the software field are: the methods that are enabled by the software, the systems that run the software to enable the methods, and the devices (or computer program products) that store the software and/or allow …

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