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In a recent Australian case, the courts refused a patent for a business method because the invention did not benefit society as a whole. James Walsh and Robert Cooper examine business method patents ...

Imagine receiving a letter from a company offering to let you license a patent covering a computer-related business method for $50,000. Should you pay it? What if the company claims that its patent ...

Guidelines, set to go into effect on April 1st in China, continue to leave the window open for software and business method patents. For software patents, patent applicants will be able to claim a ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Business method patents remain controversial, and now the ...

The confusion surrounding business method patents and, in more general terms, software patents (called ‘computer-implemented inventions’ in the European Patent Organisation’s (EPO) official ...

Business methods. What is or isn’t patentable? As countries turn to the EPO for direction Tom Ekeberg of Onsagers in Oslo decribes the efforts underway to make the distinction clear According to the ...