... study¹

Study of the effects of allowing patent claims for computer-implemented inventions, a joint study by MERIT (University of Maastricht, Netherlands), Centre of Intellectual Property Law CIER (University of Utrecht, Netherlands), Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Telecommunication Engineering School at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain and Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalization (CESPRI) at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.

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... on.²

It seems that the two occurrences of ``Is_Not'' are a typo in the application.

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... worldwide.³

In this section we give examples of patents which we suspect to be trivial in nature and merit further study. A meticulous search for prior art is needed for each example. The fact that a patent is listed here does not imply a final judgment on our part of the patent's triviality or validity. The purpose of this section is merely to raise the awareness of potential trivial patents.

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... known.⁴

See, for instance, http://www.base.com/software-patents/examples.html.

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... are:⁵

See http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/samples/index.en.html for a more extensive collection of trivial European patents.

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... patents.⁶

The reader is invited to inspect the Patent WIKI database at http://gauss.ffii.org/GaussFrontPage and do some searching. It includes all patents issued by the European Patent Office. We can guarantee that there is some entertainment in this.

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...implementation⁷

The word ``implementation'' is a multi-faced sword that may easily cause harm. In a legal sense, as in the previous paragraph, implementation denotes any method to go from idea towards its realization. Following that meaning, the specification of a software system is already an implementation of the idea for that system. In a computer science context, implementation always refers to the actual building and realization of a system in software.

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...exactly.⁸

The same questions can be asked when searching for prior art related to patent applications.

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... since.⁹

US Patent Law requires a declaration from each applicant stating that "he believes himself to be the original and first inventor of the [technology] for which he solicits a patent."

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... database¹⁰

The reader is invited to inspect the Patent WIKI database at http://gauss.ffii.org/GaussFrontPage and do some searching. It includes all patents issued by the European Patent Office. We can guarantee that there is some entertainment in this.

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