In a talk earlier this week, Richard Stallman described software patents as a sort of lottery, bringing benefits to people only rarely. Stallman is well known among free software fans as the writer of ...

If there’s any lesson to be learned from Google’s news-making activities these past few days, it’s that software patents are a problem. The most recent illustration, of course, is Google’s $12.5 ...

A campaign to raise awareness about software patents has found strong opposition to their introduction in the United Kingdom. The Protect Innovation project is being run by the U.K. arm of the ...

There is a debate raging in the industry on the viability of software patents. Much has been written both for and against software patents, with no conclusion likely to be reached in the near future.

With the European Parliament poised to begin deliberating on software patents again, organizations on both sides of the argument are continuing to push their cases. EICTA, the European Information and ...

Many members of the Open Source community oppose software patents. Software patents, they say, hinder the advancement of software art, and as such, counter the beneficial effects of open and published ...

To listen to the critics of software patents you would never know that software has been patented in the United States— ever. Notwithstanding, software patents have a very long history in the United ...

New paper from legal researcher suggests a fix for the software patent mess has been lurking in the statute all this time Software patents have been an agent of change in open source over the last ...

If you haven’t been following this story it may (hopefully) turn out to be a milestone in the history of software patents: The story concerns a US financial institution, CLS Bank, and an Australian ...

Collecting the information necessary to prepare a patent application covering a computer related invention can be quite challenging. Typically, most computer related inventions today relate at least ...

Should an abstract idea written into software and run on a computer be patentable? That’s one question a U.S. appeals court will consider Friday when it hears arguments in a case with broad ...