The core purpose of granting patent rights is not only to reward the inventor but above all to create strong incentives for innovation across all sectors of the economy. It is because of such incentives that we are seeing increased investments in new technology and more pronounced trends of commercialization of groundbreaking products and processes.…Continue reading Patent protection of computer programs (part 2)

Back in the 1960s computer programs did not have the status of standalone products. They were written specifically for a given mainframe computer and were bundled together with the hardware as an offering to the end customers. Accordingly, computer programs had a secondary role as mere accessories to hardware. This started to change at the…Continue reading Patent protection of computer programs (part 1)