To listen to the critics of software patents you would never know that software has been patented in the United States— ever. Notwithstanding, software patents have a very long history in the United ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

New paper from legal researcher suggests a fix for the software patent mess has been lurking in the statute all this time Software patents have been an agent of change in open source over the last ...

An analysis of Software as a Service (SaaS) patenting in the US Patent and Trademark Office, including the challenges in patenting SaaS, strategic considerations, and guidance on drafting claims and ...

India became a signatory to the TRIPs Agreement on January 1 1995 and as a result had to make its patent laws TRIPs compliant. The period of 1995-2005 was a transition period during which the ...

Some IP owners doubt that software can be protected in Europe. David Robinson and Mike Williams of Marks & Clerk explain why they are wrong, and what owners of computer-implemented inventions can do ...

With the European Parliament poised to begin deliberating on software patents again, organizations on both sides of the argument are continuing to push their cases. EICTA, the European Information and ...

An engineer using CAD software to model a new invention. In the U.S., those who can dream up the next best tool to improve the lives of others often can cement their names in the bedrock of history.

Patent trolls extort millions from developers and entrepreneurs, but help is on the way from the EFF and the Supreme Court How dumb are all-too-many software patents? “Spectacularly dumb,” says Vera ...