API and IP

Fred Logue

Lawyer and IP StrategistPhD in physics

IAM 300IP Committee of Law Society

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When is software patentable?*

• Is the contribution technical? E.g.– Affects a process carried on outside the computer

– Operates at the level of architecture of the computer

– Results in the computer being made to work in a new way

– Software makes a computer a better computer

– Overcomes a perceived problem rather than side-stepping it

* UK Law

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/09/video-of-the-week-data-driven-nyc-talk.html

Unless you own your data you don’t really have a defensible data asset.

Database Right

• Qualitatively or quantitatively substantial investment

• Obtaining, verification or presenting of the contents

• Right to prevent– Extraction– Re-utilisation– Of the whole or a substantial part … of contents

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