Category Patent decisions

MPEG-2 video signal encoding Patent: Video images can be regarded as a sequence of video image data as a result of a manufacturing process and thus product protection under § 9 Set 2 No.. 3 Enjoy the Patent Law

a) A video images representing sequence of video image data can be regarded as indirect pre imme result of a manufacturing process and as such Ches product protection under § 9 Set 2 No.. 3 Enjoy the Patent Law. b) is…

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Software Patent: Urteil BGH X ZR 121/09 – Web page display (it is sufficient for the technicality, when it results from the description)

a) For inventions related to devices and methods (Programs) of electronic data processing is necessary first to ascertain, if the subject matter of the invention is at least to a partial aspect of the technical field…

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Forms in patent matters, Protection certificate, Redesigned request for publication of the translation of the claims of a European patent application

For the application for grant of a patent (P 2007), the application for the grant of a supplementary protection certificate (P 2008), the request for extension of the duration of a supplementary protection certificate (P 2040) and…

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Licensee has independent right of action: Urteil BGH X ZR 86/10 from 5. April 2011 – RCA plug

Urteil BGH X ZR 86/10 from 5. April 2011 - RCA plug a) The holder of a patent, has granted an exclusive license to a third party, own rights in the event of a patent infringement…

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Examination of computer-implemented inventions in the European Patent Office under special consideration of computer-implemented business methods

Below the broad practice of the EPO European Patent Office on software patents: In this article, the EPO's practice is to set out in the examination of computer-implemented inventions. This is to patent practitioners, employees…

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Remodeling complex device patentable: BGH X ZR 173/07 from 7. September 2010 – Roll stand II

BGH X ZR 173/07 from 7. September 2010 - Mill type II EPC. 56, Patgan § 4 The fact, that a complex device (here: Rolling mill) mentally in components or…

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The protection conferred by a patent shall under § in 12 Extension Law provided not be extended examination procedure.

The protection conferred by a patent shall under § in 12 Are not expanded ErstrG provided for examination procedure. BGH Urteil Xa ZR 14/10 from 9. September 2010 - Wind Power Converter The Xa Civil Senate…

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