3. Can we protect plans, principles, methods or presentations of information?
Plans, principles, methods and presentations of information have an abstract, purely intellectual character, with no technical effect as such, and are in principle excluded from the scope of patentability.
However, the approach may be different if they are intended to be applied in the field of :
intellectual ;
fun ;
economic.
While the use of technical means to implement a method in the context of intellectual activities is not, as such, excluded from the scope of patentability, the practice of offices such as the INPI and the EPO rarely leads to the conclusion that the method is of a technical nature, and is generally considered as not having as its object the resolution of a technical problem, but the resolution...
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Bibliography
Guidelines for examination at the European Patent Office, 11-2016, EPO
Grant procedure, Patent and utility certificate guidelines, 5-2016, INPI
"In court – After Bilski", R. Randall Rader, WIPO Magazine , 12-2010
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Regulations
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Code de la propriété intellectuelle
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