For example, in the past year, patents have been granted in Canada for applications related to methods of managing financial transactions and methods for ensuring secure financial transactions.

Australia, China, India, the US and the EPO all have subtly different approaches to the patentability and protection of software inventions. Practitioners from each of the jurisdictions explain the ...

Blackboard Inc., the software company that has become the dominant course-management provider, is being called a bully by many college officials for the way the company seeks to enforce a ...

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZYUS Life Sciences Inc. ("ZYUS"), a Canadian-based life sciences company leading scientific research and development in phyto-therapeutics, announced today ...

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 ...

An analysis of Software as a Service (SaaS) patenting in the US Patent and Trademark Office, including the challenges in patenting SaaS, strategic considerations, and guidance on drafting claims and ...

The latest tactic in the software-patenting battle is the granting of patent rights to open-source developers. But are the grants really the equivalent of wolves in sheep's clothing? That's not the ...

“Given the alignment of prompt patents with the spirit of traditional patent claims and their ability to clearly and concisely express the scope of protection conveyed, there exists a compelling case ...