Publications &
Lectures

Publications and lectures

Understanding case law. Assessing developments.

Our practical advice is complemented by academic analysis, teaching and continuous dialogue with the professional community – particularly on software patents and computer-implemented inventions.

Newly published · 2nd edition · 2025

Legal Protection for Computer-Implemented Inventions

A Practical Guide to Software-Related Patents

Sabine Kruspig / Claudia Schwarz
Kluwer Law International, 2025.

The fully updated new English-language edition provides a practical international comparison of patent protection for computer-implemented inventions and AI-related innovations, covering the EPO, Germany, the USA, China, Korea, Japan, India, the PCT and the Unitary Patent system.

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Textbook · 3rd edition · 2023

Computer-Implemented Inventions – Patent Protection for Software?

Claudia Schwarz / Sabine Kruspig
Carl Heymanns Verlag, 2023.

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Selected works

Contributions on the evolving protection of digital innovation.

2023

Does the case law of the EPO and German judicial bodies on computer-implemented inventions need to change?

Claudia Schwarz, GRUR 2023, 1418.

2021

Are simulations or mathematical models patentable?

Sabine Kruspig · Summary and analysis of decision G 1/19.

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2014

Pitfalls when applying for a Software Patent in Europe – From Code to Claims

Claudia Schwarz · WWW Conference, Seoul 2014.

2014

Do difficult doctrinal questions justify abolishing “software patents”?

Claudia Schwarz, GRUR 2014, 224–229.

2013

An external view of computer-implemented inventions: quo vadis?

Claudia Schwarz · EPO Case Law Conference / WWW Conference, Seoul.

2010

Claim categories for computer-implemented inventions

Claudia Schwarz, Mitteilungen der deutschen Patentanwälte, issue 2/2010.

2007

USA abandons lenient stance on trivial patents

VDI Nachrichten, 14 December 2007.

2007

Is everything “made by man under the sun” really patentable in the USA?

Schwarz / DeWitt, Mitteilungen der deutschen Patentanwälte, issue 11/2007.

Professional dialogue

Current issues in intellectual property law.

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