On Dec. 6, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in CLS Bank Intl. v. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd., 717 F.3d 1269 (Fed. Cir. 2013), to address the patent eligibility of computer implemented inventions.

The patents at issue in Alice Corp. concern “‘settlement risk,’” “the risk that only one party to a financial transaction will pay what it owes.” That risk has long been mitigated by use of a ...

New ruling in Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank means firms must do more to advance 'abstract' software claims to receive a patent. Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security for CNET News, ...

In the Information Age, the marriage of software and hardware enables the use of computer system platforms capable of solving very complex data problems. Computers wouldn’t exist without hardware, the ...

Much criticism of software patents is rightly aimed at the use of abstract claim language to cover a wider range of technology than the patentee invented and disclosed. Mark Lemley, for example, ...

Abstraction is considered a virtue in software development. However, practice shows that wrong abstractions cause more harm ...

The US Supreme Court is wading into the battle over software patents by agreeing to hear a case between two financial firms you've likely never heard of. This comes just as the legislative arm of the ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out an Australian company’s patent for business software in a decision that clarifies standards for awarding patents, but not as much as some firms had hoped. In a ...

Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an important decision on software patent eligibility in Enfish LLC v. Microsoft. The opinion by Judge Hughes, who was ...

A landmark 2014 ruling by the Supreme Court called into question the validity of many software patents. In the wake of that ruling, countless broad software patents became invalid, dealing a blow to ...