software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, library, user interface, or algorithm. The validity of these patents can...

The software patent debate is the argument about the extent to which, as a matter of public policy, it should be possible to patent software and computer-implemented...

Neither software nor computer programs are explicitly mentioned in statutory United States patent law. Patent law has changed to address new technologies...

The patentability of software, computer programs and computer-implemented inventions under the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the extent to which...

Opposition to software patents is widespread in the free software community. In response, various mechanisms have been tried to defuse the perceived problem...

origin of the much debated Article 52(2) and (3) EPC (see Software patents under the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Article 52 EPC). The computer program...

granting of patents involving software (often referred to as "software patents") is controversial and also hotly debated (see Software patent debate). Although...

defensively. There are ongoing patent wars between the world's largest technology and software corporations. Contemporary patent wars are a global phenomenon...

world may also be part of the requirements for a software patent to be held valid. Software patents have been historically controversial. Before the 1998...

nosoftwarepatents.com opposes software patents End Software Patents opposes software patents The EU and the software patent directive Software patents review, written...

of software patents, which contains notable patents and patent applications involving computer programs (also known as a software patent). Software patents...

debate on the international legal framework for the patentability of software, and on whether software and computer-implemented inventions should be considered...

patent – Essential patent – Insurance patent – Medical patent – Software patent – Submarine patent – Patent application – request pending at a patent...

of patents. Particular types of patents for inventions include biological patents, business method patents, chemical patents and software patents. Although...

mathematics should not be patentable subject matter. Klemens was previously the executive director of End Software Patents, an advocacy group that has...

unproductive for the software industry. Enforcement by patent trolls of poor quality patents has led to criticism of the patent office as well as the...

business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against...

the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on...

biological and software inventions, and much less frequently in other areas of technology. The subject-matter which is regarded as patentable as a matter...

Neither computers nor software are specifically mentioned in the Canadian Patent Act. Canadian courts have held that the use of a computer in an invention...

due to patent litigation. Patent retaliation emerged in response to proliferation and abuse of software patents. The majority of free-software licenses...

applications. 2014. The US Supreme Court limited patentability of business methods, software patents and other abstract ideas in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank...

Open Source Software and FRAND-based patent licenses: How to mediate between Standard Essential Patent and Free and Open Source Software". The Journal...

Software Patent Institute (established 1992 in Ann Arbor) is an American non-profit corporation established to assist in the correct assignment of software...

Business method patents are a class of patents which disclose and claim new methods of doing business. This includes new types of e-commerce, insurance...

Software copyright Software patent Software license Software license agreement Proprietary software Free and open source software This article is based...

competitive software market by working towards adequate patent systems and open standards. Currently the FFII fights against software patents lobbies, not...

patents or patents on software for business methods. Alice and the 2010 Supreme Court decision of Bilski v. Kappos, another case involving software for...

This is a list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law. A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial...

the Thai Patent Act 1999 states that Thai patent law does not include software (or computer programs) as patentable because computer software is not considered...