Blog Posts tagged 'claims'

The Beginning of the End? USPTO vs. Software patents

ophir@patentim.com — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:00:00 +0100

Prof. John F. Duffy analyses at Patently-O the probable position of the USPTO towards software patents as presented in a series of cases. Specifically, patentable subject matter must result in a physical transformation of an article that is tied to a particular machine. A general purpose computer may probably not be regarded as a particular machine, and data structures and numbers (e.g. webpage rankin [...]

Warning: significant increase in claim fees and annuities at EPO per 1 April 2008

jep@patentgruppen.com — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:46:53 +0100

Hmm.. need a break in the trademark-related entries from our US colleague at Cantor Colburn? ;-)

As usual the EPO has a new schedule of fees ready for 1 April with most fees being raised by 5% or other like fair amounts.

Beware of the new claim fees and annual maintenance fees, however !!

As you know, the EPO charges a fee, currently 45 EUR, for each claim above 10 claims. Starting from 1 April 2008, this is changed to a fee of 200 EUR for each claim above 15 [...]

Computer Program Related Claims - Allowed in the UK?

mshalem@gmail.com — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:05:09 +0100

In a RelatIP recent post I have reported the new approach of the UK intellectual property office (UK-IPO) regarding computer programing related claims [Last Post] stating that the UK-IPO tends towards allowing these claims drafting in UK applications.

In a recent judgment in Astron Clinica and other's Applications [2008] ("Astron Clinica") [UK-IPO], the court has decided that claims to a method performed by running a suitably program [...]

10 IP related blog posts of the week

amit@patentim.com — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:10:32 +0100

I'd like to share 10 IP related blog posts that caught my eye in the previous week.

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