Exclusion of Presentation of Information from Patentable Subject Matter.

The article discusses a court case in France regarding the patentability of a method for displaying the mission of an aircraft over time. The court ruled that certain features of the method constituted technical means and therefore the invention was not excluded from patentability. However, the court criticized the lower court for not providing a legal basis for its decision. The article also discusses a patent application for a method of displaying the stages of an aircraft mission, which was rejected by the Director General of the INPI. The court determined that certain claims of the patent application did have technical characteristics and were not excluded from patentability, but noted that the description of the patent application lacked technical details. The article also mentions a recent decision by the French Supreme Court regarding the patentability of a method for displaying waypoints of a flight plan on a cockpit screen. The Supreme Court disagreed with the court of appeal's ruling, stating that a "technical contribution" had not been established. The article highlights the changing cultural perspective in France regarding the eligibility of computer-implemented inventions and raises questions about the future approach to patentability and inventive step in the country. [Extracted from the article]