Re: [ox] Frage an Patent-Kenner/innen
- From: Jozef Halbersztadt <halber simplusnet.pl>
- Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 08:08:17 +0200
Stefan Meretz <stefan.meretz hbv.org> wrote:
Meine Frage: Was heisst "gewerblich anwendbar"?
- dass die Erfindung tatsächlich auf gewerbliche Anwendung abzielt?
- dass die Erfindung potenziell auf gewerbliche Anwendung abzielt
- unabhängig von einer tatsächlichen gewerblichen Nutzung?
Susceptibility of industrial application has nothing to do with use of
subject matter covered by a patent. It is requirement for its granting.
From four basic requirements the most minor one. In practical terms it
excludes from patentability only a few subject matters which are not
exluded as non-inventions. One class of them are processes and articles
alleged to operate in manner contrary to well-established physicals
laws, eg. perpetum mobile.
More: Guidelines for examination in the EPO, Industrial application
http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/gui_lines/e/c_iv_4.htm
Historically a role of susceptibility of industrial application was
more prominent. When in landmark Rote Taube BGH Beschluss of 1969 is
raised a problem of repeatability as a condition of patentability, it
is an indirect reference to industrial application.
http://www.jura.uni-duesseldorf.de/Dozenten/busche/WS%
202002/GewRS/Meier-Beck/rote%20taube.htm
Jozef Halbersztadt
PL - Patent Office
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