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The Patentability of Software: Software as Mathematics


ISBN13: 9781138240599
Published: March 2019
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £120.00



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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 non-obviousness.

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, non-patentability, and offers a theory of patentable subject matter consistent with Australian, American and European patent law.

Subjects:
Intellectual Property Law
Contents:
1. The Nature of Software
2. Why Software Patents Are A Problem
3. The Nature of Mathematics
4. Why Mathematics is Not Patentable
5. Why Programming is Not a Useful Art
6. Implications

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