Intellectual Property Article: Confusion Over Software Patents - attempts by EU institutions to agree on the proposed Directive on computer-implemented invention show no sign of resolution
4/5/2005
Written by Julian Potter, a member in the Intellectual Property Section and head of the firm's Physics and Electronics Group in the London office, for The European Lawyer, April 2005
Despite adoption of the proposed Directive on computer-implemented invention, attempts by the EU institutions to agree on it show no sign of resolution. For European businesses there is much at stake.
Julian regularly provides strategic and tactical patent advice to clients including setting up and administering procedures for identifying and evaluating inventions for patent filing, advising on country filing strategies, and analysing the value of client's portfolios and those of third parties. He has experience in oppositions and appeals at the European Patent Office including conducting oral hearings. Julian has substantial expertise in software and network security technologies, including encryption, authentication, validation and verification, as well as in high energy physics, medical imaging and devices, optics, telecommunications, chip design and software technologies.
