examination as to patentability
1Patentability — Within the context of a national or multilateral body of law, an invention is patentable if it meets the relevant legal conditions to be granted a patent. By extension, patentability also refers to the substantive conditions that must be met for… …
2Public participation in patent examination — The involvement of the public in patent examination has been proposed and is currently used in some forms to help identifying relevant prior art and, more generally, to help assessing whether patent applications and inventions meet the… …
3Provisional application — Under United States patent law, a provisional application for patent is a type of national application for patent filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), but which does not mature into an issued patent unless further steps …
4Computer programs and the Patent Cooperation Treaty — Computer programs, software and patent law Topics …
5Glossary of patent legal concepts — Patent law (patents for inventions) …
6Software patent — Computer programs, software and patent law Topics …
7Software patents under the European Patent Convention — Computer programs, software and patent law Topics …
8Patent Cooperation Treaty — The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states. A patent application filed under …
9Software patent debate — is the argument dealing with the extent to which it should be possible to patent software and computer implemented inventions as a matter of public policy. Policy debate on software patents has been active for years. [Cite book |last=Nichols… …
10Patentable subject matter — Patent law (patents for inventions) …
