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In a new court decision, the Patent Senate of the Federal Supreme Court declares that any claim in which elements of the universal computer form part of the problem solution is technical and therefore patentable. Thereby the court declares the written law void and closes and adapts German law to the practise of the European Patent Office. |
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Federal Court: Software solutions as such are patentable subject matterThe Patent Senate of the Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof) declares software solutions to be patentable. What is not patentable are business methods in which software is not part of the problem solution. Computer programs as such (i.e. systems that solve data processing problems) are patentable. Thereby the court officialises the most radical implications of the Seitenpuffer (side buffer) decision of 1991 and shuts all doors toward legality that its recently retired presiding judge, Dr. Klaus Melullis, had been trying to reopen. Stefan Krempl reports on Heise News. Florian Mueller comments in English. What follows are commented quotes from the original. Leitsätze
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