 | United States. President's Commission on the Patent System - 1966 - 80 lapas
...unauthorized public disclosure also would constitute prior art as regards all other applicants. If The classes of patentable subject matter shall continue as at present, except: 1. All provisions in the patent statute for design patents shall be deleted, and another form of protection... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1967 - 1490 lapas
...educational program. I. COMPUTES PBOGBAM8 For the purpose of this discussion, a "program" can be defined as a series of instructions which control or condition the operation of a data processing machine ("computer").' Typically a program aims to solve a problem ; the formula or logical structure underlying... | |
 | Jack Belzer, Albert G. Holzman, Allen Kent - 1977 - 518 lapas
...its final report to the President, the Commission on the Patents described a "program" as follows: A series of instructions which control or condition...patentable regardless of whether the program is claimed as: (a1 an article, (b1 a process described in terms of the operations performed by a machine pursuant... | |
 | P. J. Brown - 1979 - 348 lapas
...by the Banks Committee (Banks, 1970) in their report on the UK Patent System: 'A computer program is a series of instructions which control or condition the operation of a data processing machine. ' A portable program is then a series of such instructions which may be used, with no more than minor... | |
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A series of instructions which control or condition the operation of a data processing machine, generally referred to as a "program," shall not be considered patentable regardless of whether the program is claimed as: (a) an article, (b) a process described... 