We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. From Mr Erik Johnson. Sir, James Dyson’s plea (“A plea for patents that inspire invention”, April 17) for ...

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It is difficult to comprehend how rational people could at all question the patent eligibility of software in 2015. Innovative software is all around us, from our automobiles, to the Internet, to ...

For the first time in a generation, the nation's highest court on Monday pondered the question of which inventions are eligible for patent protection. For the petitioner, Bernard Bilski, the issue was ...

For more than a decade, the legal, technical and academic communities have debated the boundaries, legality and wisdom surrounding the issue of software patentability. The debate, to say the least, ...

The European Patent Office (EPO) has called for the agency's Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) to provide a definitive answer to questions regarding the patentability of software in the European Union.

No change: That’s the result of an 18-monthlong appeals process that the president of the European Patent Office hoped would clarify the rules on whether software may be patented. In October 2008, EPO ...

Software patents—and questions about whether software should actually be patentable at all—have always been a bone of contention among patent professionals. Now the Supreme Court has taken up the ...