ESR Pollmeier GmbH – Servo Drive Technology

Software Patents
2000 – 2005

IntroductionExamplesFiled Today, Patented Tomorrow?Statement

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Filed Today, Patented Tomorrow?

Today's patent applications should be tomorrow's patents – that at least is what the applicant wishes. Here we have compiled a series of patent applications from the years 1998 to 2000. All of them were filed by a German electronics corporation that has been pushing for very far-reaching software patentability. Based on these example patents one may fairly conclude what this corporation wants to be patentable in the coming years.

Business methods and mathematical methods?

Software patent applications in the areas of fieldbus, intranet, and internet

Software patent applications for small software modules, elements and concepts


Statements and Demands

After a detailed analysis of the current patenting practise, of the EU Directive Proposal, of related literature and of numerous example patents and patent applications as well as extensive discussions with proponents and opponents of software patentability, we have worked out a position paper on software patents, which includes a series of demands.

Plea for a Clear Concept of Technical Inventions (PDF, 236 KB)

Transparencies (translated) for a lecture given at a meeting of the working group "Communication in Industrial Automation" of the German electrical and electronic manufacturers' association ZVEI on 2002-06-05.


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