For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. I still generally ...

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 ...

Attorney Tran advises startups to have both a patent application and an NDA in place when disclosing to high-risk recipients. The patent application process can be streamlined using modern software ...

In his latest No Jitter podcast, Guy Clinch talks with New Morning IP founder Fred Logue on how the cloud is changing the laws and application of intellectual property. In today's podcast, part of an ...

“The inherently transitory, distributed, and dynamic nature of SaaS…makes it challenging to obtain patent claims for SaaS inventions that are directly infringed, requiring careful and strategic claim ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a controversial software patent case after a federal appeals court ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer ...

“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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today on i4i v. Microsoft. If Microsoft wins, bad software patents could be harder to defend. The Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments on i4i’s ...

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 ...

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 ...