Voice output of a navigation instruction, To take account of street names, concerns the content of the reproduced information and is excluded as such from patentability

The instruction to the expert, certain when spoken of a navigation InDIcaToR under certain conditions detailed information (here: Street names) considered, relates to the content of the visual or audible information displayed by the navigation system…

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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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Software patent protection is always easier: Urteil BGH X ZR 121/09 from 24. February 2011 – Web page display

As such software as such is excluded from patent protection in Germany. With the new Supreme Court ruling now is enough in the case of obvious software patents, that any device (z.B. ein Client) physically through…

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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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