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| @cm You always need a lawyer if you have to do something in that area. The laws are currently not really well-defined and it seems that it is up to the lawyer to interprate them | |||
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| @at So what's the most important point you've learned there? In one post. | |||
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| you can get patent for computer grogram if it is a technical solution, has novelty and not obvious to other at the state of the art | |||
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| ms patent for clipboard is valid, because it increase your speed of work, hence solution for technical problem | |||
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| server-client solution like ebay is not an invention,hence no patent. | |||
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| if you use math methods to solve technical problem, then this is patentable, however the math algorithm still not | |||
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| patent protects invention NOT a computer program. invention must have a technical character, what ever this means | |||
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| not inventions: math methods, scientific theories, rules, presentations, programs for computer(hmm i think i got lost here :) ) | |||
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| patentability: novelty (untalken,is not formed by state of the art), non-disclosure, so no papers! | |||
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| patents protect a function which you developed. patent protection should be choosen as broad as possible | |||
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| any solution which solves some technical problem is applicable as a patent | |||
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| subcontractors must specify at the beginning,how they separate the copyrightbproperties. otherwise you would get troubles when "divorse" | |||
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| Interestingly, patents exists to protect one inventor from stealing his IP, by pursuing another re-*inventors*, even if they didn't steal... | |||
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| the underlying idea and functionality is unofrtunately not protected by copyright. patents are different | |||
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| @cm yes somewhere this is true ;) however you have to change then every letter. for binary prg means, recompile it,so that it looks differently | |||
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| however functionality can be sometimes protected by patents - limited geographically, max 20 years lifetime | |||
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| @at this means, if I take your code, add spaces and tabs and use it for commercial purposes, you can't do anything about it? | |||
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| @at yeah, sure, I was just kidding ;) | |||
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| your intellectual work in form of software is not really copyrighted, not even the functionality. just pure code string, lol | |||
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| your design is protected for 25 years and is geographically limited. your code is protected by copyright,however only the pure code string | |||
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| trademark tm, can only be registered in certain contries, you have to do it everywhere where you want to protect your name | |||
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| @cm if you have a bottle on your desk, you cannot create a copy of it. for software this is trivial | |||
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| intellectual properties: trademark/name, logo, package, company name, domain name, so almost everything | |||
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| @at "a real product can not be copied on its own" Sigmar should take a closer look to China, haha. | |||
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| diff between products and computer software is the ability to copy a programm. a real product can not be copied on its own | |||
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| presentation isgiven by Sigmar Lampe, works.in lux at patent office | |||
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| Btw, do the patents expire in some amount of years & enter the public domain? | |||
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| software is to some kind patentable in eu today | |||
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