The High Court has told the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) that computer-based simulations are now patentable.
Technical design methods such as computer simulated processes have previously been classed as mental acts that are NOT patentable. As well as computer programs and mathematical methods. This has now changed – meaning that companies can patent a computer simulated design process without there being a finished product. The High Court recently overruled a UK-IPO…
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