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Régles pour l'examination dans l'Office Européen de Brevets: IIème Partie, Chapitre IV: Brevetabilité
patents shall be available for any inventions, whether products or processes, in all fields of technology, provided that they are new, involve an inventive step and are capable of industrial application. (For the purposes of this Article, the terms "inventive step" and "capable of industrial application" may be deemed by a Member to be synonymous with the terms "non-obvious" and "useful" respectively)
Die Welthandelsorgansation empfiehlt hiermit den europäischen Ansatz, Patente auf den Industriebereich zu beschränken, erlaubt es aber auch den Amerikanern, ihr System beizubehalten, indem sie den Begriff "industriell" sehr weit auslegen.
To create a reliable environment for electronic commerce, patent agreements should: ... require member countries to provide adequate and effective protection for patentable subject matter important to the development and success of the GII; and establish international standards for determining the validity of a patent claim.Die EU kam offenbar dieser Forderung nach, als sie in ihr Grünbuch über den Elektronischen Geschäftsverkehr ähnliches schrieb.The United States will pursue these objectives internationally. Officials of the European, Japanese, and United States Patent Offices meet, for example, each year to foster cooperation on patent-related issues. The United States will recommend at the next meeting that a special committee be established within the next year to make recommendations on GII-related patent issues .
In a separate venue, one hundred countries and international intergovernmental organizations participate as members of WIPO's permanent committee on industrial property information (PCIPI). The United States will attempt to establish a working group of this organization to address GII-related patent issues.