The prerequisite of “technical” decisive for the patentability of computer-implemented inventions, and the way ahead
Currently, the legal provisions and the administrative practice of the European Patent Organization, the EPO, concerning the patentability of computer-implemented inventions are ambiguous and unclear. The contracting states to the EPO have all reproduced the legal framework, the European Patent Convention, into national law but the administrative practices of the national courts has led to a diver