Affiliation: | Reuters Professor of Intellectual Property & Information Technology Law, University of Oxford; Director, Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, St Peter's College, Oxford. An earlier version of this paper was written in the context of a wider project on patentability in the light of current technological innovation (La brevetabilité face à l'innovation technique contemporaine), directed by Professor Michel Vivant at the Université de Montpellier, France. An updated version similar to this one was published in Peter Mirfield & Roger Smith (eds.), Essays for Colin Tapper (Lexis/Nexis, 2003), 182. |