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ESoft Shines For Meadowbrook Inventions
White Papers Established in 1934, Meadowbrook Inventions, Inc.is the world's leading manufacturer and supplier of glitter. In 2001, Meadowbrook had an outdated IBM network security appliance model which was being discontinued.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The European Directive On The Legal Protection Of Biotechnological Inventions: History, Implementation, And Lessons For Canada
White Papers Following a decade of depate and controversy, the Council of the European Union and the European parliament finally adopted the "Directive on the Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions (the Biotech Directive) on July 6, 1998.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Millennium Of Inventions
News Imagine that ZDNN was around when some of the most significant inventions of the past 1000 years were unveiled. Well now you don't have to imagine -- because the ZDNN team have been busy exercising their imaginations and reporting on the top 20...
[December 29, 1999, 6:25]
A Millennium Of Inventions
News Imagine that ZDNN was around when some of the most significant inventions of the past 1000 years were unveiled. Well now you don't have to imagine -- because the ZDNN team have been busy exercising their imaginations and reporting on the top 20...
[December 23, 1999, 6:45]
EP: 'Patent Directive Is Flawed'
News JURI, the legal affairs committee of the European Parliament, agreed on Monday that the directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions includes serious flaws that would allow 'pure software' to be patented.
[May 24, 2005, 18:00]
Campaigners Celebrate Patent Directive Defeat
Talkback Rejection only prolongs the uncertainty around patentability of software-related inventions in the EU. It's my understanding that there's not to be patentability of software-related inventions in the EU so what's there to be uncertain about?
[July 8, 2005, 0:40]
Poles Push Patents Off EU Agenda
News Poland's opposition to software patents prevented the EU from ratifying the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive on Tuesday. An EU Council spokesperson has confirmed that the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive will not be adopted on...
[December 21, 2004, 15:00]
Patents Directive Wins European Parliament OK
News The European Parliament has voted to approve a highly controversial directive governing the patentability of computer-implemented inventions -- including software -- but with amendments that appear to be a victory for critics of the original...
[September 24, 2003, 18:05]
EC Slipping Software Patents 'through Backdoor'
Talkback Firstly, the EPO does not grant "software patents" - it grants patents for some inventions that use software, but that is a different thing entirely. In fact, inventions that relate to software 'as such' are explicitly excluded.
[October 6, 2005, 22:15]
Patent Nonsense: The Case For Unfettered Development
News The Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID) has caused considerable controversy ever since it started passing through the corridors of the European Union in 2002. The argument revolves around the question of whether or not we should be...
[February 18, 2005, 15:45]
EU Seeks 'legally Clever' Patent Definition
News The European Parliament (EP) has enlisted the help of intellectual property lawyers to amend the directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions so that companies are prevented from patenting pure software.
[May 17, 2005, 16:00]
EC: Software Patents Will Still Be Granted
News The European Commission (EC) warned on Wednesday that patent offices across Europe will continue to grant software patents, despite the European Parliament's decision to reject the Computer Implemented Inventions directive.
[July 21, 2005, 16:30]
US Begins Patent Probe
News US Supreme Court judges on Tuesday appeared to take issue with the current legal standard for granting patents, which many high-tech firms claim is ineffective at weeding out inventions that should be obvious.
[November 29, 2006, 7:44]
HP Misses The Spot
Leader The company has a global army of very smart people doing amazing things, but they've always preferred to let their inventions speak for themselves. HP's inventions will succeed if they fill a real need better than the alternatives.
[July 17, 2006, 17:25]
UK Patent Office Considers Problem Of Trivial Patents
News One of the main criteria of patentability under UK patent law is that 'inventions' must "not be obvious to someone with a good knowledge and experience of the subject", according to the UKPO. An inventive step requirement which is too difficult for...
[February 7, 2006, 9:00]
Microsoft May Become 'major Opponent Of Patents'
Talkback This is because the majority of important inventions come from individual and small business inventors. Even worse is that other inventions which that inventor might have made die with their dreams when they are taken to the cleaners as so many...
[October 7, 2005, 0:30]
Microsoft Demands Patent Reform
Talkback When big companies demand so called patent reform it is really double-speak for changes to the patent system which will allow them to take others inventions with impunity. They could easily avoid spending that $100 million by licensing inventions...
[March 19, 2005, 19:50]
European Software Patents Inch Closer
News Juri voted to approve a series of amendments to a proposed directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions, which aims to eliminate ambiguity in the way software-related patents are handled, and differences in the way EU member...
[June 18, 2003, 14:04]
Linux Champion Munich Welcomes Patent Delay
News The European Council had been scheduled to adopt the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive at a meeting on Tuesday afternoon. In October they introduced a motion that demanded changes to the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive.
[December 22, 2004, 16:10]
Patent Office Wants Debate On Software Directive
News This is a key part of the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID), which says that software can be patented if it can be shown to make a technical contribution. We will be very interested to see if a definition which is clear to software...
[February 4, 2005, 11:55]
