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==Case law==
  
 
Software patents, according to [[patent lawyer]] Eugene Derényi, are widely available in Canada since a 1981 court decision "Schlumberger Canada Ltd. v. Commissioner of Patents".<ref name="stikeman">http://www.stikeman.com/SoftwareCopyright_Patent_Derenyi_07.pdf</ref>
 
Software patents, according to [[patent lawyer]] Eugene Derényi, are widely available in Canada since a 1981 court decision "Schlumberger Canada Ltd. v. Commissioner of Patents".<ref name="stikeman">http://www.stikeman.com/SoftwareCopyright_Patent_Derenyi_07.pdf</ref>
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* Re Motorola Inc. Patent Application No. 2,085,228
 
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* Re Motorola Inc. Patent Application No. 2,047,731
 
* Re Motorola Inc. Patent Application No. 2,047,731
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==Legislation==
  
 
Software ideas are excluded "[[per se]]", but this limit is trivially circumvented because these patents were allowed because they were claimed together with a storage medium.
 
Software ideas are excluded "[[per se]]", but this limit is trivially circumvented because these patents were allowed because they were claimed together with a storage medium.
  
Since 2005, the non-legally-binding Manual Of Patent Office Practice (of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office) talks of "computer-implemented inventions" and says "''an act or series of acts performed by some physical agent upon some physical object and producing in such object some change either of character or condition''" and "''it must produce an essentially economic result in relation to trade, industry or commerce''".<ref name="stikeman" />
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Since 2005, the Canadian patent office's non-legally-binding ''Manual of Patent Office Practice'' talks of "computer-implemented inventions" and says "''an act or series of acts performed by some physical agent upon some physical object and producing in such object some change either of character or condition''" and "''it must produce an essentially economic result in relation to trade, industry or commerce''".<ref name="stikeman" />
  
 
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Revision as of 03:24, 16 February 2010

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Case law

Software patents, according to patent lawyer Eugene Derényi, are widely available in Canada since a 1981 court decision "Schlumberger Canada Ltd. v. Commissioner of Patents".[1]

Subsequent court cases allowing software patents include:

  • Re Motorola Inc. Patent Application No. 2,085,228
  • Re Motorola Inc. Patent Application No. 2,047,731

Legislation

Software ideas are excluded "per se", but this limit is trivially circumvented because these patents were allowed because they were claimed together with a storage medium.

Patent office practice

Since 2005, the Canadian patent office's non-legally-binding Manual of Patent Office Practice talks of "computer-implemented inventions" and says "an act or series of acts performed by some physical agent upon some physical object and producing in such object some change either of character or condition" and "it must produce an essentially economic result in relation to trade, industry or commerce".[1]

External links

References