Eric Waltmire
Software Patent News for May 26th
Software Patent News for May 26th: Patent Thickets, Bad Patents, and Costly Patent Litigation [The Volokh Conspiracy] – . . .we must be especially cautious in assuming that modern problems are necessarily different from those experienced in yesteryear . . . As Professor Khan has shown, the American patent system excelled precisely because it did [...]
Software Patent News for April 22nd
Software Patent Bits for April 22nd: A mantra for Inventors [via Todd Kashdan interviewed at The Happiness Project] – Mark Twain said that “you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do” and Ralph Emerson said “life is an experiment” and “the more experiments you [...]
Software Patent News for April 2nd
Software Patent Bits for April 2nd: The Patentability of Software and Business Methods after “In re Bilski”- [David R. Heckadon] – "On Oct 30, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down its highly anticipated decision in In re Bilski, (2007-1130, Fed. Cir. 2008). This case was expected to clarify whether [...]
Pay for a Software Patent Application or a Software Engineer?
Software companies and entruepunurs are faced with the question of whether to spend $8K to 15K to file a non-provisional patent application covering a software invention or whether the money is better spent to keep to the lights on or hire engineer to futher develop the product. Here are the factors you should consider when [...]
Software Patent News for March 28th
Software Patent News for March 28th: The Death of Business-Method Patents [IEEE Spectrum] – “What we really need to know, but lack the tools to reliably assess, is whether software patents help or hinder innovation. If that question is obvious to ask but impossible to answer, then how are we to decide whether to admit [...]
Software Patent News for March 19th
Software Patent Bits for March 19th: SCRIPTed Conference: Computer Implemented Inventions Workshop [Scripted - UK] – This event is the idea of Professor Philip Leith, Queen's University Belfast, and it is organised as part of SCRIPT's "Information Technology Law Foresight Fora. The objective of the event is to bring together a small number of practitioners [...]
Software Patent News for March 16th
Software Patent News for March 16th: Patentable Subject Matter Redux: Bilski 2009 (Ex Parte Motoyama) [Patently-O] – “In Ex Parte Motoyama, Appeal 2008-2753 (Bd. Pat. App. Int., Feb. 27, 2009) . . . the BPAI reversed an examiner's Section 103(a) obviousness rejection, but entered a new ground of rejection as failing the Bilski test of [...]
Software Patent News for February 24th
Software Patent Bits for February 24th: 25 Patent Blogs [IPWatchdog.com] – Article: Patent Rights Under FOSS Licensing Schemes [Shidler Journal of Law, Commerce & Technology] – Abstract: "Free/Open Source Software (“FOSS”) licenses generally give developers and users the freedom to run software for any purpose, to study and modify software, and to redistribute copies of [...]
Software Patent News for February 12th
Software Patent Bits for February 12th: U.K. patent office ordered to accept software patent [Computer World] – "At issue is a patent that Symbian Ltd. applied for and that was rejected in July 2007 by the U.K. Intellectual Property Office (IPO). Symbian sought a patent for a system that makes accessing dynamic link libraries — [...]
Software Patent News for February 11th
Software Patent News for February 11th: JPO Launches a project for public review of patent applications [East Meets West] The JPO [Japanese Patent Office] launched a project for public review of patent applications similar to the USPTO’s “Peer-to-Patent” system. The project concentrates on patent applications in the information technology field (e.g. computers, software, networks, etc.). [...]