Under the European Patent Convention (EPC), European patents shall be granted for inventions which inter alia involve an inventive step. The central legal...

above the state of the art". The expression "inventive step" is used in European Patent Convention and in Patent Cooperation Treaty, while the expression...

The patentability of software, computer programs and computer-implemented inventions under the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the extent to which...

European patent is used to refer to patents granted under the European Patent Convention. However, a European patent is not a unitary right, but a group...

123 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) relates to the amendments under the EPC, i.e. the amendments to a European patent application or patent, and...

Article 84 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) specifies that the "matter" for which patent protection is sought in an application - the purported invention...

the invention under the European Patent Convention – Divisional applications under the European Patent Convention – Inventive step under the European...

refused (under Article 97(1) EPC) or revoked (under Article 102(1) EPC) as lacking inventive step. The EPO provides guidelines for evaluating the patent-eligibility...

United States patent law) or involve an inventive step (in European patent law and under the Patent Cooperation Treaty) Useful (in U.S. patent law) or be...

European patent law covers a range of legislations including national patent laws, the Strasbourg Convention of 1963, the European Patent Convention of...

Under the European Patent Convention (EPC), European patents shall be granted for inventions which inter alia are new. The central legal provision explaining...

whether an invention meets the novelty and the inventive step or non-obviousness criteria for patentability. In most systems of patent law, prior art is generally...

inventive concept). See for instance Unity of invention under the European Patent Convention. A patentability requirement mainly used to prevent the patenting...

new, involve an inventive step, and are capable of industrial application. Nevertheless, there are variations on what is patentable subject matter from...

requirement and inventive step under the European Patent Convention (EPC). More generally, it is a significant decision regarding the patentability of business...

such as in the European Patent Convention (EPC) and its case law, no explicit, accurate definition of who exactly is an inventor is provided. The definition...

States Software patent Software patent debate Software patents under the European Patent Convention Software patents under TRIPs Agreement Limitations on...

inventions are eligible for patent protection if they pass the tests of patentability: patentable subject matter, novelty, inventive step or non-obviousness,...

origin of the much debated Article 52(2) and (3) EPC (see Software patents under the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Article 52 EPC). The computer...

Software patents under multilateral treaties: Software patents under TRIPs Agreement Software patents under the European Patent Convention Computer programs...

to protect inventions in each of its contracting states. A patent application filed under the PCT is called an international application, or PCT application...

by the examining division of the European Patent Office for lacking an inventive step. EP 0394160  US 5301348  The patent relates to a progress bar. Filed...

requirement than the inventive step required for a standard patent under Australian law. An invention will involve an innovative step if there are differences...

of the Paris Convention. Some priority rights are defined by a multilateral convention such as the European Patent Convention (EPC) or the Patent Cooperation...

for a patent to be granted under United Kingdom patent law. Firstly, there must have been an invention. That invention must be novel, inventive and susceptible...

they are new, involve an inventive step and are capable of industrial application. (...) patents shall be available and patent rights enjoyable without...

an "inventive concept." If there is no addition of an inventive element to the underlying abstract idea, the court finds the patent invalid under section...

adding an "inventive concept" to the otherwise ineligible underlying idea. The "contribution approach" in European patent law is similar to the American...

invention is non-obvious or not (in U.S. patent law), or involves an inventive step or not (in European patent laws). If it would have been obvious for...

(under "I. Patentability", "D. Inventive step", "9. Assessment of inventive step") Legal Research Service for the Boards of Appeal, European Patent Office...