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Spain. Senor Martinez will be taking care of furtherpaperwork, and when he's sure everything is in order, he'll Withdraw the money from your account and hand it over to The Seller. Senor Martinez can then sign the relevant part of the contract. Once the rest of the money's been transferred To your Spanish account, the final documents will be signed On the completion date. Mr Watson: Do I have to be there for the signing? Ms Blackwell: No, Senor Martinez will represent you, and he, The Seller and the estate agent - as well as a representative of the bank if you've arranged a mortgage - will undertake The signing in the presence of a notary. Then the money and the keys will be exchanged, and the house is yours! Mr Watson: Sounds great! Unit 11 Listening1 Well, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I'm going to be Talking to you today about a hot topic in the area of intellectual property law. It's the topic of business-method patents. It's an area where a lot of change is occurring right now, and so It's Quite exciting. One of the senior partners of the firm, Mr Whittaker, has told me that the firm's just landed an important New client with a case involving a business-method patent for an Internet sales application. I'm told it deals with a one-click ordering solution. I understand that you'll be shadowing the senior lawyer assigned to this case, and so I'll be covering the Topic with you in detail. I'll begin with the basics, and then we'll move on to look at a few landmark cases. Each of you'll be assigned one case to research and then to present to the group - don't worry, you'll Have plenty of time to do the research between sessions - and then you'll summarise the case for the others. Finally, I'll Discuss the present situation and some recent holdings. Feel Free to interrupt me at any time if you have any questions. Right. Well, allow me to start by going over what happens when A person tries to get proprietary rights for their invention. Naturally, an application is submitted to the patent office. The Examiners at the patent office decide whether an invention Deserves to be awarded a patent on the basis of certain Standards. These standards - also known as requirements - Are set forth in the patent statutes, as you know. But what are these standards? What determines the patentability of an invention? Let's have a look at the requirements. The first requirement is that the invention must be useful. This is also known as the 'utility requirement'. This requirement is Met if the invention is operable and if the invention provides what's known as a 'tangible benefit'. 'Tangible' in this case means 'substantial' or 'real', so that we can say that utility Refers to a real benefit that the invention provides. The second requirement is that the invention must be novel. Naturally, 'novel' means 'new', in the sense that the invention mustn't be anticipated by another patent which has already been Granted or by knowledge which is already in the public domain. The third requirement's called 'non-obviousness'. This word Refers to the quality of something being not obvious to a Date: 2015-12-11; view: 826
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