9. Excluded as invention:
a) discoveries, scientific theories and
mathematical methods;
b) aesthetic creations;
c) schemes, rules and methods for performing
mental acts, playing games or doing
business, and programs for computers;
d) presentation of information.
10. Exceptions to patentability
a) Inventions contrary to “ordre public” or
morality
b) plant or animal varieties;
c) Methods for the treatment of the human or
animal by surgery or therapy and diagnostic
methods practised on the human or animal
body.
38. In the Dutch patent free era, the
Netherlands became from leading
in wealth to lagging in wealth,
compared to its neighbors whilst
they maintained their patent
systems
40. 0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
1500 1600 1700 1800
NL patents per decade
Indexed
purchasing
power soap
Source: The prices of the most important consumer goods, and indices of wages and the cost of living in the western part of the Netherlands, 1450-1800, J. Luiten van Zanden
41. 0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
1500 1600 1700 1800
NL patents per decade
Indexed
purchasing
power peat
Source: The prices of the most important consumer goods, and indices of wages and the cost of living in the western part of the Netherlands, 1450-1800, J. Luiten van Zanden
42. 0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
1500 1600 1700 1800
NL patents per decade
Indexed
purchasing
power
pepper
Source: The prices of the most important consumer goods, and indices of wages and the cost of living in the western part of the Netherlands, 1450-1800, J. Luiten van Zanden
57. Because of his patent,
the inventor could raise
license fees
58.
59. Big tech patents are
150 times more
valuable than small
tech patents
60. In EU, non uses clauses
prevents abuse, in USA
there is no such relief
system
61. Non usus: if you don’t practise the
invention within 3 years after grant,
you cant stop others anymore, a
license is obligatory by law (Article
57(2) ROW)
62. NPE’s sitting on their rights doing
nothing are not possible in EU,
contrary thereto, in the USA they
can (and do sometimes)