Content Protecting games – IP issues is ultimately dependent on the might be protectable in the US by courts of that country. It also remains a US patent because the exclusion to be seen how the new Unified from patentability for software is Patent Court will approach narrower in the US than in Europe. computer implemented inventions. There are, therefore, more patents A software-based invention which granted in the US in relation to games wouldn’t be patentable in Europe than there are in Europe and the UK. 131