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By Eric Waltmire on July 7, 2009
Software Patent Bits for July 7th: Start-up Entrepreneurs & CEO’s: If Your Goal is Investment or Acquisition, You are Probably Patenting the Wrong Things [IP Asset Maximizer Blog] – “The great majority of patent seekers (including those at otherwise sophisticated large companies) believe that patents are best used to keep others off their ‘technology lawns’.” [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on July 4, 2009
Software Patent Bits for July 4th: Bilski at the BPAI – What a Mess (Part 1) – [The 271 Patent Blog] – "…the process of determining patentable subject matter after Bilski has become a weird, metaphysical endeavor. It has gotten to the point that a given claim may receive 4 different interpretations from 4 different [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on May 26, 2009
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 [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on April 22, 2009
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 [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on April 2, 2009
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 [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on March 28, 2009
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 [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on March 19, 2009
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 [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on March 16, 2009
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 [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on February 24, 2009
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 [...]
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By Eric Waltmire on February 12, 2009
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 — [...]
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