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lab = Exegesis
tit = Interpretation of Article 52 of the European Patent Convention
sut = in view of the question, to what extent software is patentable
des = Dr. Karl Friedrich Lenz, professor for German and European Law at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, investigates using the various universally accepted methods of law interpretation which meaning has to be attributed to the text of art 52 EPC today and reaches the conclusion that the Technical Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office have for some time now regularly granted patents on programs for computers as such and are showing a disturbing willingness to substitute their own value judgements for those of the legislator.
kws = Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, Logic Patents, intellectual property, industrial property, IP, I2P, immaterial assets, law of immaterial goods, mathematical method, business methods, Rules of Organisation and Calculation, invention, non-inventions, computer-implemented inventions, computer-implementable inventions, software-related inventions, software-implemented inventions, software patent, computer patents, information patents, technical invention, technical character, technicity, technology, software engineering, industrial character, Patentierbarkeit, substantive patent law, Nutzungsrecht, patent inflation, quelloffen, standardisation, innovation, competition, European Patent Office, General Directorate for the Internal Market, patent movement, patent family, patent establishment, patent law, patent lawyers, lobby

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