The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal (FCA), in Attorney General of Canada v. Benjamin Moore & Co. [2023 FCA 168], a 3-0 decision, recently set aside the test on subject matter eligibility of ...

“The FCA noted that the use of the terms ‘new and useful’ with the statutory categories of invention indicates that novelty may be relevant in determining whether an invention falls within the ...

In the UK, the patentability of computer-implemented inventions is viewed through the framework of the Aerotel case. Here, the patentability of a computer-implemented invention is decided by first ...

The EU has spoken: the directive for the patenting of computer-implemented inventions is dead. But that does not mean the end for software-related patents, as long as patent attorneys consider all ...

The patents cover check-cashing mobile apps that automatically snap a photo once a suitable image of the check is in the field of view. A key claim of one of the USAA patents covers the concept of ...

Hardly a week goes by without the controversial issue of software patenting hitting the news. Particularly controversial are the business-method software patent filings that are inundating the U.S.

It’s possible, as some fear (and some popular movies have predicted), that computers will ultimately become self-aware and turn on their human creators. But if so, they must first establish that ...

The most common rejections of such inventions issued by the Mexican Institute of the Industrial Property (MIIP) make reference to a lack of a technical problem disclosed in the specification of the ...

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