GEO: connexion, April 1st, 2005
While it is correct to say that UK patent law expressly excludes computer programs "as such" from patentability, computer programs are patentable if they make a technical contribution or, more precisely, when they produce a technical effect which is more than would necessarily follow merely from the running of any program on a computer.
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For a computer implemented invention to be patentable, it must meet the same requirements as all other inventions of being industrially applicable, novel and involving an inventive step.
A recent report highlighted that approximately...
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