The short answer is "no, but yes." This post explains why and illuminates how software, apps, and computer-related products can be protected by patents. When people ask "is software patentable?," they ...

In a unanimous decision last month, the Supreme Court ruled that naturally occurring genes are not patentable. But, said the Court, cDNA, a man-made copy of the genetic messenger in cells, is ...

On Monday this week, the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that the PTO would be revisiting the test for patent subject matter eligibility. The announcement was made on the ...

“While ‘abstract ideas’ are not patentable in the United States, the UK does not consider abstraction relevant when considering patentable subject matter. Either the patent claims, for example, a ...

Patent attorney, investor, entrepreneur and Principal at Perpetual Ventures, powering startups and entrepreneurs to successfully deploy IP To continue reading this ...

Over the years I have had the opportunity to work with many inventors. In fact, over the years I have worked with or advised literally thousands of inventors, the overwhelming majority of which were ...

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Semitrex, a fabless semiconductor company addressing the issue of energy consumption, today announced that the company's core technology has been deemed patentable on a global scale by the United ...

Magnus Johansson and Behdad Assadi of Valea examine the circumstances in which AI is patentable in Europe, analysing when AI makes a technical contribution to an invention and looking at two examples ...

India became a signatory to the TRIPs Agreement on January 1 1995 and as a result had to make its patent laws TRIPs compliant. The period of 1995-2005 was a transition period during which the ...