Miller Mendel Inc. filed a lawsuit against the City of Anna, Texas (“the City”), in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging infringement of Claims 1, 5, and 15 of U.S.

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Aristocrat Technologies will require software patent drafters to take more care to describe algorithms covered by their software--or risk patent invalidity.

The short answer is "no, but yes." This post explains why and illuminates how software, apps, and computer-related products can be protected by patents. When people ask "is software patentable?," they ...

A good example what software is capable of versus the hardware way is manipulating audio. Hardware has equalizers, compressors, ways to change the pitch and phase. These devices had patents. Software ...

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 ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. Blackboard, whose software can be used to manage university courses, has taken a significant step to mollify open-source rivals who ...

“Given the alignment of prompt patents with the spirit of traditional patent claims and their ability to clearly and concisely express the scope of protection conveyed, there exists a compelling case ...

If you haven’t been following this story it may (hopefully) turn out to be a milestone in the history of software patents: The story concerns a US financial institution, CLS Bank, and an Australian ...

“Though these new guidelines may seem unnecessary, there is clear benefit to the public, especially to the applicants who rely on patents for future innovative endeavors.” The United States Patent and ...

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 ...

A group of high-ranking scientists is petitioning the European Parliament to prevent the patenting of algorithms and software ideas, the latest twist in the European Commission's attempts to create a ...

Open-source software -- heck, all software -- has been plagued by patent trolls for decades. The Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, is now expanding ...