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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australia, China, India, the US and the EPO all have subtly different approaches to the patentability and protection of software inventions. Practitioners from each of the jurisdictions explain the ...

“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 ...

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 ...