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Case law
Revision as of 06:57, 27 February 2012 by Ciaran (talk | contribs) ((If you're looking for court cases which were important for other reasons, see '''List of lawsuits'''.))
Case law is a special subset of court rulings which give definitions about how patent law is to be interpreted in the given country. The most important cases define what is and isn't patentable subject matter (i.e. is software patentable or not).
(If you're looking for court cases which were important for other reasons, see List of lawsuits.)
There are many criteria on which a court can rule a patent to be invalid. A court might say the patent wasn't original enough, or wasn't sufficiently innovative. Those court rulings are not very interesting for our goal of excluding software from patentability.
Contents
Case law around the world
- See also: List of lawsuits
Australia
Canada
Israel
United States of America
- Main article: Case law in the USA
Japan
European Union
England and Wales
- Main article: Case law in the UK
Germany
- Main article: Case law in Germany
Netherlands
France
- See: France (various subsections)