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Trilateral Project

Working group of the major patent offices and related government officials, influential in framing patent policies at a world level, which are often used as an argument to reinterpret and change national patent laws.
->Die versteckten Patentpläne der Europäischen Kommission
Jean-Paul Smets writes in spring 2000: The European Commission's Directorate for the Internal Market has built a consistent network of fallacies to argue in favour of software patents. It is closely following a new proprietarist ideology championed by the United States government. Expect the Directorate to push patents on intellectual methods in the near future.
->die Trilaterale Kommission der Patentämter
Includes comparative reports of the three Patent Offices
->Saikine 2000: Comparative Study of Software Examination Practise of EPO, JPO and USPTO
A study, based on example patents, on how the world's three most important patent offices evaluate claims related to software, mathematics and business methods. It appears from this that they are basically the same, but the EPO is slightly more willing to grant broad and trivial software patents than the other two offices.
->EPO 2000/05/19: Examination of %(q:business method) applications
The EPO document which introduced the term "computer-implemented invention". This is Appendix 6 of a report in which the EPO explains to the US and Japanese Patent Office to what extent it has made progress in working around the European Patent Convention so as to make business methods patentable in Europe. This document became the basis of the European Commission's software patentability directive proposal of 2002/02/20.
->INPI.pt Documento de Consulta 2003/07/28
The Portuguese Patent Office explains its support for the European Commission's directive approach:

We approve the harmonised position of the US Patent Office (USPTO), the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) concerning the patentability of these inventions (see Trilateral Technical Meeting Study, Tokyo, June 2000), according to which technical features are required in order for a computer-implemented business method to be considered patentable. According to EPO and JPO these computer-related technical features must be claimed explicitely, wheras according to the USPTO it is sufficient if the claims implicitely refer to such features.
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