Analyses of the patentability of specific ideas

Examples are very important for testing legal wordings. If you want to propose a test that should exclude software from patentability, you need to check it against at least these examples:

• Anti-lock braking example - software-implemented or software controlled?
• mp3 audio example - are audio signals "applied natural science"?
• digital camera image processing example - if a photographer could do it them self, is it software?
• Cabinet for the blind - does it matter if the reading cabinet contains hardware, software, or a human?
• Is resource usage technical? - if it makes computer hardware use less resources?

Related pages on ESP Wiki

• Analogies
• Pen and paper patents
• CSIRO wifi patent - a hardware or a software patent? forum
• Example software patents - reading software patents might give ideas for how to spot others
• Computer simulations and representations

External analyses

If someone finds it worthwhile, wiki pages might be written about some of the analyses linked below. So if something disappears, take a look in the category.

• FFII: Sennheiser's patents still valid, regarding infra-red audio communication
• FFII: Tomography patents still valid
• FFII: Automatable medical diagnosis