Artur Fischer from plastic materials (Polyamide) and is available in various shapes and sizes since 1958 (see Wall plug). Fischer held over 1100 patents and overtook Thomas Alva Edison, who held 1093 patents. Fischer also held 5867 trade rights and invented fischertechnik. Further inventions are (bone-)plugs for fixing bone fractures and one of Fischer’s most recent inventions is a gadget that makes it possible to hold and cut the top off an egg of any size. He got started on the problem when a hotel owner complained to him that his guests, on opening their boiled eggs for breakfast, always made a
Software patents under United Kingdom patent law Software patents under United Kingdom patent law There are four overriding requirements for a patent to be granted under United Kingdom patent law. Firstly, there must have been an invention. That invention must be novel, inventive and susceptible of industrial application. (See Patentability.) Patent laws in the UK and throughout Europe specify a non-exhaustive list of excluded things that are not regarded as "inventions" to the extent that a patent application relates to the excluded thing as such. This list includes "programs for computers". Despite this, the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) regularly grants patents to inventions that are