Patents on Legal Methods? No Way!

An “invention,” as used in the United States patent laws, refers to anything made by man that employs or harnesses a law of nature or a naturally occurring substance for human benefit. A watermill, for instance, harnesses the power of gravity to run machinery. But legal methods, such as tax strategies, are not inventions in this sense, because they employ “laws of man” — not laws of nature to produce a useful result

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Schwartz, Andrew A.
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Patent \| Patentrecht \| Patent law \| Immaterialgüterrechte \| Intellectual property rights

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (4 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Columbia Law Review Sidebar, Vol. 107, Pages 1-3, 2007 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 14, 2007 erstellt
Classification:	K00 - Law and Economics. General ; K11 - Property Law ; K2 - Regulation and Business Law ; K20 - Regulation and Business Law. General ; k99 ; K34 - Tax Law ; K29 - Regulation and Business Law. Other ; O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development ; O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; O34 - Intellectual Property Rights: National and International Issues
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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