Timeline for Why is there the same boilerplate stuff at the front of every patent?
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| Dec 14, 2013 at 18:55 | comment | added | George White♦ | This google.com/patents/EP1361509B1 is a newly issued EP patent that is very close to pure software. There are patent prosecution highway (PPH) programs to take an allowance in one country and use it to skip to the front of the line in a second country but it is not a rubber stamp particularly in US -> EPO. | |
| Dec 14, 2013 at 18:43 | answer | added | George White♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 13, 2013 at 10:50 | comment | added | Frunsi | My guess: in europe, pure software patents are actually not allowed. So, here some boilerplate stuff is required to give software patents a technical touch, an association to actual technical (hardware) things. And then there are international patent agreements, which enable an agreed US patent a priority to quickly become an EU patent. I think that boilerplate stuff is preparation to quickly obtain an EU patent. | |
| Dec 12, 2013 at 5:03 | history | asked | user7385 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |