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61South African patent system — The South African patent system is the system by which patents are granted in South Africa.As is the case in many other countries, a patent provides legal protection for a new and industrially applicable invention. This invention, which… …
62Software patent — Computer programs, software and patent law Topics …
63Business method patent — Business method patents are a class of patents which disclose and claim new methods of doing business. This includes new types of e commerce, insurance, banking, tax compliance etc. Business method patents are a relatively new species of patent… …
64Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act — Acronym Hatch Waxman amendments Citations Codification …
65Method (patent) — In United States patent law, a method, also called process , is one of the four principal categories of things that may be patented. The other three are a machine, an article of manufacture (also termed a manufacture), and a composition of matter …
66Object Process Graph — An Object Process Graph (OPG) is a general purpose executable graph that incorporates every aspect of an application, including process, user interface, and database.[1][2][3] No programming language, tool, or database is required to handle any… …
67Software patents under United States patent law — Software or computer programs are not explicitly mentioned in United States patent law. In the face of new technologies, decisions of the United States Supreme Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) have sought to …
68Japanese patent law — is based on the first to file principle and is mainly given force by the Patent Act (特許法 Tokkyohō ) of Japan which consists of 204 articles. Article 2 defines an invention as the highly advanced creation of technical ideas by which a law of… …
69Software patents under the European Patent Convention — Computer programs, software and patent law Topics …
70Public 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… …
