Sometimes the sheer stupidity, posturing, and lack of insight by policymakers are breathtaking. As a form of virtue signaling, the Biden administration has just announced U.S. support at the World ...

On Nov. 28, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued new examination guidance clarifying inventorship standards ...

The Supreme Court largely chose to uphold the status quo in the world of software patents today with a unanimous ruling in the case of Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank. The court upheld the most recent ruling ...

EU lawmakers have been locked in intense negotiations for months on loosening rules on the use of new genetic technologies in ...

Simple Flying has reached out to Boeing for comment on the patent for its emissions reduction system.

Ask any client what he or she expects from the lawyers who are handling his or her work, and invariably the answer you receive is that the work must possess “quality.” Everyone wants to know that when ...

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The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Aristocrat Technologies will require software patent drafters to take more care to describe algorithms covered by their software--or risk patent invalidity.

EDITORIAL NOTE: What appears below is based on remarks by Manny Schecter, IBM’s Chief Patent Counsel, at the USPTO Patent Quality Summit on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. I speak to you today from the ...

Pending federal legislation could bring sweeping changes to a patent system critics say is broken and in need of repair. The Patent Reform Act-before Congress since last year-presents the most ...

The biotech trial of the century is over—for now. On Wednesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decided in favor of the Broad Institute, which has been battling the University of California for ...

Software patents are generally directed to a sequence of steps or rules, i.e., an algorithm, performed by a computer programmed to carry out the algorithm. Because algorithms are inherently functional ...