{"id":3354,"date":"2002-07-09T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2002-07-09T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2014-11-24T14:52:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T14:52:59","slug":"software-related-inventions-prospects-and-risks-for-european-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2002\/07\/09\/software-related-inventions-prospects-and-risks-for-european-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Software related inventions: Prospects and risks for European companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Symposium 2002<\/h2>\n

Bournemouth University, July 9th 2002 – 9.30am to 4.30pm, in the OVC Boardroom, 5th floor, Poole House, Talbot Campus<\/p>\n

Overview of Symposium<\/b><\/p>\n

Following the success of last year’s “A New Feudalism of Ideas?”, the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (www.cippm.org.uk<\/a>) is inviting you to the 2nd Bournemouth Symposium on Software Related Inventions: Prospects and Risks for European Companies.<\/p>\n

Protecting software as literary works under copyright is conceptually incoherent. It also has the undesirable consequence of granting in effect permanent restrictions on the use of software products. We shall never see the source code of Windows. By contrast the patent system is said to be based on a trade-off between disclosure and protection. Why then treat software differently from other products of human ingenuity? <\/i><\/p>\n

Awarding patents to software related inventions appears theoretically plausible, but commercially problematic. In an industry advancing through incremental innovations, the deadweight costs of a patent system have been rejected by many independent software developers. The European Patent Office has shirked the issue sheltering behind the myth of a \u201ctechnical effect\u201d. In practice, protecting software under the European Patent Convention has now become a matter of clever drafting.<\/i><\/p>\n

This symposium seeks to explore some of these issues in an informal setting, away from the lobby interests of the Proposed Directive of the European Commission<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

PROGRAMME:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

09.30 – COFFEE and WELCOME (Prof. Nick Grief, Head of School)<\/p>\n

10.00 – PAPERS 1 – European Practice (chair: Prof. Gerald Dworkin)<\/p>\n

    \n
  • Keith Beresford, European Patent Attorney, Beresford & Co, London
    \n\u201cDrafting a technical effect\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Puay Tang, SPRU, University of Sussex
    \n\u201cSettlements of software patent disputes: empirical indications\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Professor Ruth Soetendorp, CIPPM
    \n\u201cPredictability and risk in finance related patenting\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    11.30 – COFFEE<\/p>\n

    12.00 – PAPERS 2 – European Policy (chair: Prof. Martin Shepperd)<\/p>\n

      \n
    • Robert Gehring, Dept. of Informatics, Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin
      \n\u201cSoftware development, IP and IT security\u201d<\/li>\n
    • Tim Frain, Director IPR Nokia
      \n\u201cEC proposal for a Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions\u201d<\/li>\n
    • Greg Aharonian, editor PATNEWS, San Francisco
      \n\u201cWhy business methods are technical\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      13.30 – <\/span>BUFFET LUNCH<\/p>\n

      14.30 – <\/span>OPEN SESSION (chair: Martin Kretschmer)
      \nContributions may include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n

        \n
      • Sylvain Percheaud, europe-shareware.org
        \n\u201cEconomic characteristics of software innovation\u201d<\/li>\n
      • Matthias B\u00e4rwolff, Humboldt Universit\u00e4t Berlin
        \n\u201cLessons from Linux\u201d<\/li>\n
      • Christian Koboldt, London Consultants dotecon
        \n\u201cSoftware patents, economic consequences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        16.00 – TEA and LAUNCH OF BOURNEMOUTH PAPERS ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY<\/p>\n

          \n
        • Vol. 1: Gurminder Panesar (Taylor Joynson Garrett): “Internet Technologies and the Traditional Conceptions of Trade Mark Protection in the UK”<\/li>\n
        • Vol. 2: Matthias B\u00e4rwolff, Berlin: “Linux and Windows – A Case of Market Failure?”<\/li>\n
        • Vol. 3: Juliet Scullion (technology transfer consultant RTC North): “Patenting Genes: an analysis of the interaction between law and industry in policy formation\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          16.30 – CLOSE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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