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Patenting Military Technology — Is It Possible?
Where military interests are concerned, the motives for technological development and its funding have to do with national security interests, to outpace enemy states in the arms race. Countries that have invested in military technology clearly have no interest in publishing their data or in providing a specification that “a person skilled in the same technological area of invention would be able to make and use,” as per patent instructions. On the other hand, when these technological developments are intended for profit, the commercial motive outweighs the security one.
Israeli law and combination inventions: Patentable software-based avionic systems
A central element of innovation in avionic systems is a software program which communicates with and controls existing aircraft systems.
In regards to patenting software-based avionic systems, it is important to stress the combination of component parts that produces a novel, singular and innovative technological advancement that would not be possible with each component functioning separately.
This article was published by Gold-Patents in the the December 2010 edition of “Technologies” magazine in Israel.