From: Jurgen Vinju To: Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:09:58 +0100 Subject: PEM: Doeko Bosscher & Kamiel Koelman (UvA/Law Faculty) | Elegibility of algorithms and software for protection by intellectual property rights | 30.03.00 From: pem (PEM moderator) To: pem-noreply Subject: PEM meeting | 30.03.00 | M2.79, CWI Precedence: bulk X-url: http://www.cwi.nl/~pem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Environmentalists, This week, we have two guests from the University of Amsterdam Law Department. They will try to explain in laymen's terms the finer points of copyright and patent law, as it applies to software and algorithms. This announcement can be found at Elegibility of algorithms and software for protection by intellectual property rights Date: 30.03.00 Time: 10:00 Venue: M2.79, CWI Speaker: Doeko Bosscher & Kamiel Koelman (UvA/Law Faculty) Title: Elegibility of algorithms and software for protection by intellectu al property rights Have you ever asked yourself why very few groups from CWI seem to make REAL money in what their good at? Have you ever asked how your algorithms and software can be protected? Doeko Bosscher and Kamiel Koelman of the University of Amsterdam Law Department will try and answer these questions for you. Both speakers will relate their subject to the situation of researchers in general, and the CWI situation in particular. Dr. Doeko Bosscher, toevoegd onderzoeker of the department of Computer Science and Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam and a former PhD student at CWI (AP2/SEN2), will subsequently give a basic introduction to patent law, which offers a different way of protection Starting from the dogma of intellectual property law that ideas cannot be protected he will explain the differences between copyright law, which protects the originality of form and is granted by the simple act of making, and patent law, which requires an invention, which shows an inventive step and can only be obtained after a thorough examination by a patent authority. In the last five years their have been new developments, notably the EC directives copyright protection on databases and software and revolutionary decisions of the Board of Appeal of the European Patent Bureau, which seem to indicate that sofware (regardless of the medium in which it is stored) and non technical algorithms can obtain patent protection. Doeko will deal with these issues from the Dutch, EC and US perspective. Kamiel Koelman, a fellow researcher with the Institute for Information Law, where his main topic of interest is the functioning of copyright in the digital networked environment, will give a short introduction to copyright law. His talk will deal with questions such as: When is software protected and who owns the copyrights? What are the rights of researchers at universities? Under what circumstances may computer programs be used without a license? No prior legal knowledge is assumed in the audience and there will be ample time to ask questions. _________________________________________________________________ The programming environment meetings are a forum for the presentation and discussion of new ideas, ongoing and finished work. A typical meeting addresses a subject in the area of programming environments, program generation, algebraic specification, term rewriting, parsing, etc. A presentation ideally takes between 45 and 90 minutes. Meetings taking longer than 45 minutes are interrupted by a coffeebreak. Most Thursdays, a meeting is held which starts at 10:00 am. in one of the rooms at CWI/WINS. Exceptionally, dates or times may change. The program of the meetings is available on WWW: http://www.cwi.nl/~pem _________________________________________________________________