Software Patent Law Eu New Zealand And The Us Compared
A patent is defined as an exclusive right or rights provided by a government to an inventor for a certain period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention. A software patent is a patent for an invention involving software. The extent to which software patents should be granted varies from country to country. The present contribution examines the current state of the art of the software patent law in the EU (Section 2), New Zealand (Section 3), and the US (Section 4)....