The Patentability of Software

Software as Mathematics

Anton Hughes

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Routledge
13 December 2021

IT & Communications law; Patents law; Legal aspects of computing

Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

This book explores the question of whether software should be patented. It analyses the ways in which the courts of the US, the EU, and Australia have attempted to deal with the problems surrounding the patentability of software and describes why it is that the software patent issue should be dealt with as a patentable subject matter issue, rather than as an issue of novelty or nonobviousness.

Anton Hughes demonstrates that the current approach has failed and that a fresh approach to the software patent problem is needed. The book goes on to argue against the patentability of software based on its close relationship to mathematics. Drawing on historical and philosophical accounts of mathematics in pursuit of a better understanding of its nature and focusing the debate on the conditions necessary for mathematical advancement, the author puts forward an analytical framework centred around the concept of the useful arts. This analysis both explains mathematics’, and therefore software’s, nonpatentability and offers a theory of patentable subject matter consistent with Australian, American, and European patent law.

By: Anton Hughes
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 358g
ISBN: 9781032241418
ISBN 10: 1032241411
Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 13 December 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The nature of software 2 Why software patents are a problem 3 The nature of mathematics 4 Why mathematics is not patentable 5 Why programming is not among the useful arts 6 Implications Conclusion Index

Anton Hughes has a doctorate in patent law and currently practices as a barrister in Sydney, Australia.