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The concept of "technology" in patent law

PhD student: Dr R.B. Bakels

Promotor: Prof A.W.J. Kamperman Sanders

Duration: 1/7/2002 - 1/1/2008

PhD defence: Maastricht, 25/4/2008

Abstract:

Patents in Europe are supposed to be granted only for "technical" inventions, by tradition. This requirement is particularly important for "software patents". But its application is problematic. My research develops a new "vertical" concept of technology, better related to economic needs than the present "horizontal" concept of technology, and therefore open to "teleological" interpretation and likely to improve legal security.

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