Essays about: "EPO"

Showing result 16 - 19 of 19 essays containing the word EPO.

  1. 16. Assessment of inventive step

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Radu Dumbraveanu; [2010]
    Keywords : Immaterialrätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : There are a number of factors which influence an objective assessment of inventive step i.e. the skills of the Examiner, the hindsight knowledge, the guidelines for examination and not the least the ability to rightly define a fictive reference which delimits the obvious from the non-obvious. READ MORE

  3. 17. Patentability of Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Finding the Balance between the Moral Hazard in Europe and the Wide Scope in the US

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Anna Thorstenson; [2008]
    Keywords : EG-rätt; Immaterialrätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Stem cells are the first type of cells developed in an embryo. They have the ability to divide, self-replicate, for indefinite periods. Under the right conditions or given the right signals, stem cells can give rise to the many different cell types. READ MORE

  4. 18. The prerequisite of “technical” decisive for the patentability of computer-implemented inventions, and the way ahead

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Jakob Mehkri; [2005]
    Keywords : EG-rätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Currently, the legal provisions and the administrative practice of the European Patent Organization, the EPO, concerning the patentability of computer-implemented inventions are ambiguous and unclear. The contracting states to the EPO have all reproduced the legal framework, the European Patent Convention, into national law but the administrative practices of the national courts has led to a divergence in case law between the courts of the member states and the case law of the Board of Appeal. READ MORE

  5. 19. Software patentability: European Answer.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Ganna Dyachenko; [2004]
    Keywords : Human Rights Law and Intellectual Property Rights; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This paper attempts to analyse the legal protection of software in Europe and reviews the current legislative developments in the European Union (EU), particularly with regard to the European Council (EC) draft directive for patentability of software-implemented inventions. It analyses the current EU legislation and considers how the proposed Directive improves such legislation and also points to the problematic areas of the proposed draft. READ MORE