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patentable software 18 Oct 2011 | 12:38 pm
In Japan, patentable software inventions are ones for controlling a device, and ones that have to use a hardware resource such as a memory device.
USPTO's guideline 18 Oct 2011 | 12:38 pm
In 1995 was released: USPTO to Develop Guidelines to Protect Software Inventions
JPO official fees 18 Oct 2011 | 12:28 pm
Official fees of JPO (1) filing an application ... 16,000 JPYen, (2) Request for examination ... 168,600 + (Number of Claims x 4000) JPYen, (3) Annuity ... 2,300 + (Number of Claims x 200) JPYen pe...
choose a nice attorney 2 Sep 2011 | 12:23 am
If you entrust a patent attorney or agent for filing a patent application of a software invention, you should research attorney's technical field carefully.
patent procedure in general 21 Aug 2011 | 12:38 am
Patent procedure: 1.Filing a patent application 2.Filing a request for examination 3.Filing Remarks and/or Amendment if receiving a "Notification of Reasons for Refusal"(i.e. Office Action) 4.Pay Pat...
keep in secret 11 Aug 2011 | 12:39 am
It is difficult to find infringes of software patents, especially, software without any outputs that a human can recognize... Therefore, for some software inventions, keeping them in secret may be be...
Patentable categories of software 6 Aug 2011 | 12:36 am
Patentable categories of software invention are (1) device using program, (2) method, (3) computer readable medium storing program, and (4) program.
software or program 3 Aug 2011 | 12:35 am
The word "software" has the almost same meaning as the word "program". Program is a series of instructions for a processor.
embodiments of software invention 31 Jul 2011 | 12:32 am
Software exists in a medium (fixed medium like HDD or portable medium like CD), a IC chip, or the like. Therefore, some patterns of embodiments are needed for getting a strong patent.
percentage 24 Jul 2011 | 12:30 am
Percentage of granting a patent to a software invention is lower than the average of all inventions.
