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The Patentability of Software - Software as Mathematics (Paperback)
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The Patentability of Software - Software as Mathematics (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property
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This book explores the question of whether software should be
patented. It analyses the ways in which the courts of the US, the
EU, and Australia have attempted to deal with the problems
surrounding the patentability of software and describes why it is
that the software patent issue should be dealt with as a patentable
subject matter issue, rather than as an issue of novelty or
nonobviousness. Anton Hughes demonstrates that the current approach
has failed and that a fresh approach to the software patent problem
is needed. The book goes on to argue against the patentability of
software based on its close relationship to mathematics. Drawing on
historical and philosophical accounts of mathematics in pursuit of
a better understanding of its nature and focusing the debate on the
conditions necessary for mathematical advancement, the author puts
forward an analytical framework centred around the concept of the
useful arts. This analysis both explains mathematics', and
therefore software's, nonpatentability and offers a theory of
patentable subject matter consistent with Australian, American, and
European patent law.
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