Federal Court of Appeal – Wenzel Downhole Tools Ltd. v. National-Oilwell Canada Ltd. “Being available for consultation is not the same as disclosing information. “ “…information cannot be deemed to have been available to the public unless it is established by positive evidence that it was indeed conveyed to the public by some form of communication.
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US: Attention de ne pas prévoir un ordinateur à usage général sans en avoir les moyens
Pour les praticiens en PI Dans Ergo Licensing v. CareFusion 303 (Fed. Cir. 2012) la Federal Circuit des États-Unis a déterminé: If special programming is required for a general purpose computer to perform the corresponding claimed function, then the default rule requiring disclosure of an algorithm applies. It is only in the rare circumstances where any general-purpose computer without any special programming can perform the function that an algorithm need not be disclosed. Thus, the means-plus-function limitation has no corresponding structure in the specification because “there is no algorithm described in any form for the function of ‘controlling the …