Patenting Software: The Business Responsible Thing to Do
Whether the "open source means free" community ever chooses to acknowledge it, the truth is that a patent is a business tool; an asset. If you are serious about being in business in the software space...
View ArticleA Patent for Software
What If you created an automobile engine that could deliver 500 miles per gallon of gasoline would you seek a patent? I suspect you would because that type of engine would almost certainly be...
View ArticleBuilding Better Software Patent Applications: Embracing Means-Plus-Function...
The disclosure requirements for these types of patent applications has been a moving target for years, which means that whatever the most stringent disclosure requirements are should become the target...
View ArticleFTC Halts Computer Spying by Secretly Installed Software
Seven rent-to-own companies and a software design firm have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they spied on consumers using computers that consumers rented from them, capturing...
View ArticleBroad Claims to Signals & Computer Program Products in EPO
The good news is that signal claims and broad claims to computer program products are obtainable in Europe. However, such claims are only grantable if the necessary language is present in the European...
View ArticleAn Examination of Software Patents
Software patents, like all patents, are a form of innovation currency. They are also ecosystem enablers, and job creators. The innovation protected by software patents is highly integrated with...
View ArticleIs IBM’s Watson Still Patent Eligible?
Watson? It is an artificially intelligent computer system that is capable of answering questions presented in natural language. It is, in essence, the modern day equivalent to the all knowing Star Trek...
View ArticleApple Seeks Patent on Suggested Search Rankings Based on Social Network Contacts
Many of the recently published documents from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, including both patent applications and issued patents, relate to software system improvements that Apple has...
View ArticleAaron’s Rent-To-Own Settles FTC Computer Spying Charges
How is it possible that no one is going to jail for this? How is it possible that there were no fines levied by the FTC? According to the FTC’s complaint, Aaron’s franchisees used the software, which...
View ArticleWhat is a Computer?
A computer is, at a fundamental level, simply a clump of electrical switches each of which are in either an on or an off position. Whether and when a given switch is on or off is the result of the code...
View ArticleHP Seeks Patent on Lip Reading Speech Recognition
Our feature patent application today almost sounds impossible, or at least exceptionally futuristic. The application discloses a novel way of using image processing to aid in speech recognition...
View ArticleWhy the Supreme Court in the CLS Bank v. Alice Case Should Not Answer the...
Article written by Martin Goetz... Over the years the term “software” has been terribly abused when a patent application has a computer in its specifications. We hear the terms abstract, ideas, laws of...
View ArticleSoftware Patent Basics: What Level of Description is Required?
The key to any software patent application is to describe the invention with enough technical detail, system specifics and process information so that a computer programmer could take the disclosure...
View ArticleFujitsu Seeks Patent on Method of Detecting Illegal Network Connections
This patent application was filed by Fujitsu with the USPTO in July 2013, and claims the benefit of priority of a prior Japanese Patent Application filed on Oct. 26, 2012. The application seeks to...
View ArticleIBM Inventors Join Hall of Fame for Pioneering Programmable Computing
As the Supreme Court contemplates the patent eligibility of computer systems, the National Inventors Hall of Fame will induct three IBM (NYSE: IBM) engineers for their invention of the Automatic...
View ArticleFTC Halts Computer Spying by Secretly Installed Software
Seven rent-to-own companies and a software design firm have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they spied on consumers using computers that consumers rented from them, capturing...
View ArticleBroad Claims to Signals & Computer Program Products in EPO
The good news is that signal claims and broad claims to computer program products are obtainable in Europe. However, such claims are only grantable if the necessary language is present in the European...
View Article50 years after Moore’s Law, powerful computer processing now cheaper than ever
The price index of personal computing has dropped by greater than 40 percent since 2007; during that time, the average consumer price index rose by about 10 percent. Computer software and wireless...
View ArticleThe Intel Compute Stick turns any monitor into a working computer
Intel recently introduced the world to the Compute Stick, a palm-sized device with an HDMI plug offering two gigabytes of memory, 32 gigabytes of storage space and runs Windows 8.1 as operating...
View ArticleIntel, Micron develop 3D XPoint as an eventual successor to NAND flash memory
A partnership between Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) and Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) has resulted in the development of a new non-volatile memory called 3D XPoint (pronounced “crosspoint”)....
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