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Patents
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Patents
Gives inventor a monopoly on an invention for 2 years
- Invention
- new
- inventive (and non-obvious)
- capable of industrial application
- Invention
Rights = inventor or inventor's employer
NOT AUTOMATIC
- Substantial Fee
Can not be patented in EU or UK
- Presentation of Information, e.g. database
- Software, unless its a component of a system which = patentable invention
Difference between Copyright and Patents
- C protects a form in which ideas are expressed, not the ideas themselves
- P protects ideas (as embodied in a specification of an invention)
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- Software Engineering (Ethics) Mind Map on Patents, created by Christina on 17/05/2013.
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- Christina
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