Tag: software patent

Facebook sued over 'like' button (BBC News) Facebook is facing legal action over its use of the "like" button and other features of the social network... It is being sued by a patent-holding company ...

Tomorrow, February 8, the full Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”), who receives nearly all patent appeals, will hear oral arguments in CLS Bank v. Alice Corp.  This cas...

In an interesting historical tidbit, last week the Guardian in the United Kingdom published an interview of Martin Goetz.  Goetz is the person awarded the first software patent back in 1968.  In a p...

(Cross posted on Project DisCo) Yesterday, a sworn statement by former Palm CEO Edward Colligan became part of the public record in a civil antitrust lawsuit brought by 5 employees at major Silicon V...

Yesterday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a Federal Register notice on software patent issues, announcing several roundtables and a written comment period.  The roundtab...

The SHIELD Act is an important step in the process of common sense patent reform where it is most needed: computer hardware and software patents.  The Act introduces a “loser pays” rule in compu...

I just returned from five days in Silicon Valley to my Washington, DC home.  For years, I have been one of the many people who have sat at the intersection of the Silicon Valley-DC gap on key policy ...