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Chapter 7: Patents II:

pp. 212-247

Authors

Patrick R. Goold
, City University of London
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This chapter describes contemporary patentable subject matter as a form of technical knowledge. The chapter considers whether technical knowledge is a thing that can be owned (the metaphysical question).

Keywords

  • Patentable subject matter
  • inventions
  • not inventions
  • excluded inventions
  • technical character
  • discoveries
  • computer programmes
  • business methods

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