Tag: software patent
CLS Bank v. Alice: Don’t Lose Your Head
The patent world was waiting with bated breath for the Federal Circuit’s decision in CLS Bank International v. Alice Corp. At last, we thought, we would have a ruling on when software is patentable ...
CCIA Filed Comments with the USPTO on Software Patent Quality
On February 12, 2013 in Silicon Valley, and February 27, 2013 in New York City, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) held two roundtables on enhancing the quality of software patent...
Patent Progress Interview Series: Julie Samuels, EFF
A few weeks ago we interviewed Julie Samuels, the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), about software patents and patent trolls. Our conversation...
Five Employees, Six Lawyers: The Problem with Software Patents
It’s the tech startup dream: coming up with a great idea, raising funding to make it a reality, gaining users, hiring a first, second, and third employee. Hiring just as many lawyers.
When a startu...
Patent Trolls Stifle Innovation
Over the last several months, we have been vocal in our calls for software patent reform to put an end to the threat of lawsuits on behalf of patent assertion entities (PAEs), more commonly known as p...
Patents in the News 2/27
Businesses plan to boost IP litigation spending - survey
Thomson Reuters
February 27, 2013
Dan Levine
More publicly traded companies are planning to increase spending on intellectual property ...
Patent Troll Panel Important for Competition Policy
CCIA is hosting an important event on Thursday, February 28th entitled “How Patent Trolls are Harming Innovation.” The event will take place in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, and will featu...
“The Black Box is Never Described”: CLS Tries to Teach the Federal Circuit the Difference Between Methods Claims and Systems Claims, and about Abstract Ideas
For those who are interested, a reader has shared a transcript of the oral arguments in CLS Bank v. Alice en banc at the Federal Circuit. As we have written, a lot is at stake in this case as it tak...
Preview of Today’s USPTO Software Patent Roundtable in Palo Alto
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is holding the first of its bicoastal roundtables on software patent quality today at 12 pm EST (9 am PST) in Palo Alto, CA. The second will be ...