Patent Law for Computer Scientists Steps to Protect Computer-Implemented Inventions /

• Main Authors: Closa, Daniel. (Author), Gardiner, Alex. (Author), Giemsa, Falk. (Author), Machek, Jr̲g. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers > Law and legislation.; Commercial law.; Computer Science.; Legal Aspects of Computing.; Commercial Law.; Law and Economics.; Computers and Society.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05078-7

Patent laws are different in many countries, and inventors are sometimes at a loss to understand which basic requirements should be satisfied if an invention is to be granted a patent. This is particularly true for inventions implemented on a computer. While roughly a third of all applications (and...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: 1) Introduction
• Part II: Case Studies
• 2) Business Methods - 3) Administrative Methods - 4) Digital Rights Management - 5) Databases and Database Management Systems - 6) Billing and Payment - 7) Graphical User Interfaces - 8) Simulation - 9) Games - 10) E-Learning - 11) Medical Informatics - 12) Mathematical Methods
• Part III:
• 13) Case Law - 14) Conclusion and What Comes Next.