Microsoft's recent trials and tribulations with its Word software patent illustrates the difficulty in granting -- and defending -- software patents. This fall, Microsoft was briefly barred from ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider two bills Thursday that would effectively nullify the Supreme Court’s rulings against patents on broad software processes and human genes. Open ...

Use of free open-source code can be a massive accelerant when building complex software applications. Why reinvent wheels? And depending on resources and budget, sometimes it’s the only practical way.

“Understanding and dispelling common myths about software patents is not just an academic exercise – it’s a crucial step for innovators and companies seeking to defend themselves against competitors ...

An analysis of Software as a Service (SaaS) patenting in the US Patent and Trademark Office, including the challenges in patenting SaaS, strategic considerations, and guidance on drafting claims and ...

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 ...

Microsoft/TomTom lawsuit sparks call to change a patent system that helps few, hurts many. The recent Microsoft/TomTom patent infringement suit has sparked a renewed call for software patent reform.

This week our Head of Knowledge, Marious Georgiou, unpacks one of the UK software industry's biggest myths: all software is excluded from patenting. It's commonly believed that your valuable software ...

Patent trolls extort millions from developers and entrepreneurs, but help is on the way from the EFF and the Supreme Court How dumb are all-too-many software patents? “Spectacularly dumb,” says Vera ...

Martin Goetz patented the first software in 1968 for data-sorting mainframe software Before this, software was seen as a free commodity bundled with hardware by huge companies like IBM. Goetz worked ...