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Like the other parts of the paragraph 2, computer programs are open to patenting to the extent that they provide a technical contribution to the prior art.In the case of computer programs and according to the case law of the Boards of Appeal, a technical contribution typically means a further technical effect that goes beyond the normal physical interaction between the program and the computer.
On 20 February 2002, the European Commission initiated a proposal [1] for a directive to codify and "harmonise" the different EU national patent laws and cement the practice of the European Patent Office of granting patents for computer-implemented inventions provided they meet certain criteria (cf. software patents under the European Patent Convention).
The Lamfalussy process has provided a significant impetus in delivering successful agreements on four key measures of the Financial Services Action Plan: the Market Abuse Directive, adopted on 3 December 2002; the Prospectus Directive, adopted on 15 July 2003; the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive , adopted on 27 April 2004 and the ...
Directive 98/27/EC on injunctions for the protection of consumers' interests, repealed by Directive 2009/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on injunctions for the protection of consumers' interests. [6] Directive on alternative consumer dispute resolution, Directive 2013/11/ΕU, issued on 21 May 2013. [7]
RRI involves holding research to high ethical standards, ensuring gender equality in the scientific community, investing policy-makers with the responsibility to avoid harmful effects of innovation, engaging the communities affected by innovation and ensuring that they have the knowledge necessary to understand the implications by furthering ...
The single submission process for approval to conduct research in all EU member states is facilitated by the Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS). [3] CTIS is an online portal which enables interactions between clinical trial sponsors (that is, the organization responsible for the conduct of the clinical trial), and the regulatory ...
The Kingdom of the Netherlands brought Case C-377/98 [4] before the European Court of Justice against the adoption of the directive with six different pleas but the Court granted none of them. Nevertheless, the ECJ decision does not preclude a further test of the validity of the directive on the ground that it is inconsistent with the Agreement ...
Directive (EU) 2016/801 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of research, studies, training, voluntary service, pupil exchange schemes or educational projects and au pairing (recast) Image title: Author: www.legislation.gov.uk: Software used