Business method patents have a checkered history. They were once very much in vogue—numerous such patents issued, and many of them were litigated. Then, about two years ago, Congress enacted a special ...

Amid a growing body of unsettled law regarding the patentability of software and business methods patents, companies are increasingly choosing to maintain their valuable innovations as trade secrets ...

The University has been lobbying the federal government on intellectual property policy and tax legislation for the end of 2013 and all of 2014 so far, according to lobbying disclosure forms filed ...

According to a newly published Apple patent application (via AppleInsider), Apple is investigating methods to offer an iPhone status sharing system in which users can check the individual "status" of ...

A common method for determining the patent status of medicines internationally is highly imprecise and complicates medicine access by obscuring the true medicine patent landscape for policymakers and ...

Justin Nelson is a partner at Susman Godfrey L.L.P. The reaction from patent litigants to the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank was one big shrug. The decision was exactly ...

Design patent counsel are concerned that an upcoming case at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit could result in uncertainty over when design patents are obvious. The Federal Circuit granted ...

Facebook has patented a new system that could help it estimate a user’s socioeconomic status. The patent, according to CBInsights, shows a decision tree that collects data points on a user’s education ...

Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. And for better or worse — mostly worse — the US patent system influences and infects its counterparts around the world. It’s true there’s been some progress of ...

In a new patent filing published by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider), Apple describes a system for setting essentially an “Away/Available/Busy” style status for receiving phone calls on a smartphone ...