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ARTICLE · 23 MAY 2017

CRI Guidelines - II

This article is a follow up to my article: ‘Need Soft Patents for Software Inventions'; in fact, it is one in the series analysing the patentability of ‘computer related inventions.'

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This article is a follow up to my article: 'Need Soft Patents for Software Inventions'; in fact, it is one in the series analysing the patentability of 'computer related inventions.'

Although the first article praised the IPO for naming the guidelines aptly – Computer Related Inventions guidelines and not software inventions, it is with disappointment that I have to say that the guidelines fail to add 'something more' to clarify the stand of the patent office with respect to computer related inventions.

Let me start with guidelines on the inventive step determination at section 4.2.

4.2 Inventive Step

'the inventive step must be a feature which is not an excluded subject itself'... pg 9; para 2

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