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The international law of business method patents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Before the landmark State Street case in 1998, the courts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had often denied patents to inventions that were no more than methods of doing business. But State Street swept away three decades of complex, inconsistent case law, firmly establishing the patentability of business methods and computer software. ;
John M. Conley
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Microbiological Inventions and the Patent Law-the International Dimension

Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews, 1985
Introduction: nature des brevets, but et types de protection. Historique et situation actuelle dans differents pays: Grande-Bretagne et Commonwealth, Continent europeen, Etats-Unis et Canada, Japon. Conditions de prise de brevet: leur impact sur la microbiologie (depot de micro-organismes dans des collections de culture, publication dans des revues ...
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Microbiological Inventions and the Patent Law—International Developments

Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews, 1989
It may be difficult at first sight to appreciate why inventions in biotechnology cause such problems in patent law. However, the living nature of the material with which the biotechnology inventor works has certain consequences of a special kind. It is the purpose of this review to examine recent developments, and to describe the present state of this ...
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National Sovereignty and International Patent Law

2020
Article published in the Michigan State Law Review.
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Reprioritizing International Patent Law

Over the past half-century, rapid technological change and globalization have reshaped innovation and intellectual property, yet the foundational international agreements anchoring the global patent system have remained essentially unchanged. The drafters of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the Patent Cooperation ...
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The grace period in international patent law and its effect on the timing of disclosure

Research Policy, 2010
Abstract The paper applies a novel methodology to US and EPO patent data to assess how often the “general grace period” exception is used in the USA and the likely impact of international patent regulations that almost invariably deny such use on the pace of new disclosures in academia.
FRANZONI, CHIARA, G. Scellato
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Patent law harmonization and international trade

International Journal of Economic Policy Studies, 2022
Banri Ito, Katsunori Shirai
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