246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the question of whether software should be patented. It analyses the ways in which the courts of the US, the EU, and Australia have attempted to deal with the problems surrounding the patentability of software and describes why it is that the software patent issue should be dealt with as a patentable subject matter issue, rather than as an issue of novelty or nonobviousness.... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The nature of software
2 Why software patents are a problem
3 The nature of mathematics
4 Why mathematics is not patentable
5 Why programming is not among the useful arts
6 Implications
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Anton Hughes has a doctorate in patent law and currently practices as a barrister in Sydney, Australia.
