...Since November 2006 the UK IPO has relied on a pair of landmark cases - Macrossan and Aerotel - for its approach to softwarepatentability. In the Macrossan case, the Court of Appeal refused a patent for a program that simply allowed users to...
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...glosses over is that the provisions in the new directive significantly alter the legislation currently governing softwarepatentability. Rather than vindicating the existing legal situation, the legislation is being recast in the image of the...
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