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IEEE Spectrum July 2005 Ben Klemens |
Software Patents Don't Compute How the U.S. patent system attempts to draw a dividing line between patentable machines and unpatentable mathematics- and why the system is failing.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Wayne P. Sobon |
Opinion: The Federal Circuit Must Uphold Patent Protection for Business Methods The decision in the Bilski case will have major implications for business method patents  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Kirk Teska |
Commentary: Business-Method Patents--Down But Not Out? The Bilski case leaves us with more questions than answers  |
Information Today July 6, 2010 George H. Pike |
Supreme Court Confirms Patentability of Business Methods, Denies Bilski Patent The lengthy and complex decision, entitled Bilski v. Kappos, affirmed the legality of business method patents, while leaving unanswered some questions about the scope and breadth of such patents.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2012 Kirk Teska |
The Patent Eligibility Bar Gets Raised Again Yet, for the fourth time in 150 years, the Supreme Court fails to clearly distinguish between an invention and an idea  |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2011 John Grgurich |
How the Patent Wars Are Hurting High-Tech Well-intentioned patent laws are threatening to stifle innovation.  |
Information Today September 15, 2011 George H. Pike |
Congress Enacts Patent Reform Legislation In what is being described as the most substantial overhaul of U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years, Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, patent reform legislation that has been years in the making.  |
CFO May 1, 2008 Marie Leone |
Patents under Pressure The battle over business-method patents heads to court in what may be a landmark decision.  |
The Motley Fool October 3, 2007 Rich Duprey |
No Patents on Thinking ... Yet Over the years, the U.S. Patent office has patented a few too many ideas. The Supreme Court is now spending more time deciding whether a company has really infringed on a patent, rather than automatically issuing an infringement.  |
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Roy Mark |
Patent Reform: Beware of Unintended Consequences Is it fair to patent software?  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Lee A. Hollaar |
Patents 2.0 There are big problems with patents, especially software patents. A new type of patent is needed -- Congress should create a new, limited protection that protects against knockoffs without overreaching.  |
InternetNews November 24, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Nick Godici, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has been taking a lot of heat in recent years over software patents. Sitting at the center of the firestorm, and the patent process, is Nick Godici, the agency's Commissioner for Patents.  |
Information Today April 2005 George H. Pike |
Patenting the Internet The role of Internet patents has come into question as a number of patents have been issued to cover routine Internet practice such as media streaming.  |
Information Today October 16, 2006 K. Matthew Dames |
The Patent System on Tilt: IBM Seeks to Change the Game IBM wants to change the way the patent system works, holding itself out as an exemplar of openness.  |
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Andrew W. Torrance |
After the Gene Rush About 20,000 gene-related patents have been granted in the U.S. so far, with twice as many on the way. The practical and political challenges are equally large.  |
Chemistry World March 23, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
Court throws out patent covering drug dosing The US Supreme Court has said that medical tests that rely on correlations between drug doses and treatment cannot be patented because they are based on laws of nature.  |
Wired June 2000 Evan Ratliff |
Patent Upending The invention police can't stand Greg Aharonian, who says the fuss over Amazon's "one-click" plan is old news. The real problem: The government lost its grip on intellectual property long ago....  |
Bank Systems & Technology June 29, 2010 Matt Gunn |
Supreme Court Rejects Business Method Patent Ruling in Bilski v. Kappos doesn't shut door on business method patents, but doesn't clarify them either.  |
InternetNews September 27, 2006 Michael Hickins |
IBM Pushes New Patent Policies Patent reform may be on the way, but IBM has decided to change the system on its own and is leading by example.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Suhas Sreedhar |
Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications Hoping to curtail the orgy of tech-industry litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched an Internet-based peer-review program whereby anyone can help to evaluate a number of software patent applications voluntarily submitted for public evaluation.  |
CIO September 28, 2012 Kim S. Nash |
Companies Race to the Patent Office to Protect Their IT Breakthroughs There's a patent gold rush under way as savvy companies seek to lock in the competitive advantage from their IT innovations. CIOs ought to seek patents for unique business methods and other inventions made possible by new technology.  |
Inc. June 2006 Athena Schindelheim |
Great Moments In Patent History With the blockbuster BlackBerry settlement and a case involving eBay before the Supreme Court, the dowdy world of patent law is suddenly hot.  |
Bank Technology News July 2008 Glen Fest |
Intellectual Property on Trial The Financial Services Roundtable and several institutional members such as Bank of America are urging a federal court to overturn the patentability of certain business method processes.  |
InternetNews March 16, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Patently Unfair? Overworked patent examiners and outdated rules are just two of the reasons critics of some tech patents say the process needs fixing.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2006 Kirk Teska |
Patently Obvious The rules about what can and cannot be patented may soon change.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Ben Klemens |
New Legal Code Copyrights should replace software patents.  |
Bank Technology News March 2001 John Hackett |
In Pursuit of Patents Bankers and their suppliers fear fallout from an over-burdened Patent and Trade Office...  |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jill Jusko |
Patent Protection Your valuable intellectual property requires keen oversight. To help keep it safe, consider these actions.  |
CIO August 1, 2003 Lawrence Rosen |
Patents: An Expensive Tax on the CIO Software patents cost you money. Like taxes, they skim from your profit margins, but in this case the fees go to pay for other companies' intellectual property.  |
InternetNews September 3, 2009 |
Microsoft: Can't Our Patent Systems Get Along? Senior Microsoft legal eagle advocates "harmonization" of patent systems worldwide in blog post.  |
CIO August 1, 2003 Mark Radcliffe |
Patents: A Small Price to Pay for Progress For CIOs, the issue is not whether patents should be granted for software but whether anything can be done to improve the quality of the granted patents. The problem relates more to the examining process in the USPTO than to the appropriateness of patents for software.  |
InternetNews May 20, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
A Primer on Software Patents A closer look at software patents and at their history and implications for IT.  |
Information Today May 2004 George H. Pike |
You Can't Do That, It's Patented There are an increasing number of questionable patent claims that cover Internet technologies and techniques, and permission must be obtained for their use.  |
Bank Technology News January 2004 Karen Krebsbach |
Bight Ideas Financial services firms are deluging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with applications, which soared 15-fold between 1995 and 2002. Patent attorney Dale Lazar urges banks to get in line: converting valuable ideas into assets can pay off big time.  |
IndustryWeek August 1, 2006 |
Patents: Eleven Issues To Consider... How patent savvy are you?  |
Financial Advisor October 2006 Michael Brier |
Patently Foolish? Allowing financial firms to patent tax strategies may mean you and your clients have to foot the bill.  |
Salon.com October 23, 2000 Damien Cave |
Who ya gonna call? Patent busters! BountyQuest CEO Charles Cella explains why his Web site is offering cash to patent destroyers...  |
Bio-IT World June 17, 2004 Cathryn Campbell |
Patent Plaintiff Perils Suing for patent infringement may seem rewarding, but you could lose even more.  |
Information Today May 2006 George H. Pike |
Feature: BlackBerry: Lawsuit and Patent Reform Whether through the courts or before Congress, the BlackBerry experience suggests that some modification of patent law is not only likely, it's necessary.  |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2011 |
A Rule of Thumb Gets Shot Down The Federal Circuit court continues its trend in tightening the standards for establishing patent damages by leapfrogging a stalled legislative process.  |
InternetNews June 11, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft Patent in Review The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a request by the Public Patent Foundation to review one of Microsoft's many patents, the organization said today.  |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2009 Anders Bylund |
Playboy, Citigroup, and Google's Patent Problem Eolas is about to recast how we should think about software patents -- without really trying.  |
InternetNews January 30, 2007 Roy Mark |
Second Look For Dynamic Web Patents The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will review two patents held by EpicRealm, a Texas firm that has filed a number of infringement lawsuits against companies employing dynamic Web technology.  |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Henninger & Feldstein |
Safeguarding the Value of Patent Assets As small biotech firms test the water in partnerships with Big Pharma, the best calling card is a well-framed strategy on intellectual property.  |
CIO January 1, 2003 Christopher Koch |
Patently Stupid? It's not clear at the start of 2003 whether the software patent frenzy will cause innovation to flower or be trampled.  |
InternetNews July 31, 2007 Larry Barrett |
RealNetworks Case Highlights Sea-Change In Patent Law Supreme Court ruling puts patent trolls on notice.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Steven J. Frank |
Patent Reform Cacophy The Patent Reform Act may, in the end, merely contribute another layer of cost, delay, and uncertainty.  |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2010 |
Looking Beyond the Patent Cliff Pfizer's VP and Assistant General Counsel for Global Patents and Policy, Roy Waldron, discusses its collaborative strategy to refresh the face of IP.  |
InternetNews June 4, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft Double-click Patent Sows FUD Will you pay Redmond every time you click-click?  |
PC Magazine April 6, 2005 John C. Dvorak |
Software Patents: Microsoft's Fatal Error Microsoft's has a lot to worry about as the European Union looks unfavorably on its hidden source code and patent practices.  |