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Drafting and Filing Applications for Inventions and Utility Models and Granting a Patent) Drafting and Filing Applications for Inventions and Utility Models and Granting a Patent) Germany Section 1 (3) 3) and (4) of the Patent Law of 16/12/1980 (as last amended by the Act on Improvement of Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights of 31/07/2009) X Not specified (Guidelines for the examination procedure as of 2004, 4.3) The exclusion of the or activities mentioned under a) to d) is only applicable to the extent that protection is sought for them as such (Sec. 1 (2), (3) Patent Law), ie. they are only excluded from patent protection insofar as they are claimed irrespective of any concrete implementation. Where they are utilised to solve a concrete technical problem, they are generally patentable in this context. 4.3.1. Inventions involving a computer program, an arithmetical or organisational rule, other software characteristics or a process are in
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