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2. Software patents under United States patent law - Wikipedia

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   Neither software nor computer programs are explicitly mentioned in statutory United States patent law.Patent law has changed to address new technologies, and decisions of the United States Supreme Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) beginning in the latter part of the 20th century have sought to clarify the boundary between patent-eligible and patent ...

3. Software patent debate - Wikipedia

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   The software patent debate is the argument about the extent to which, as a matter of public policy, it should be possible to patent software and computer-implemented inventions. Policy debate on software patents has been active for years. [ 1 ]

4. Software patent - Wikipedia

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   There is a debate over the extent to which software patents should be granted, if at all. Important issues concerning software patents include: Whether software patents should be allowed, and if so, where the boundary between patentable and non-patentable software should lie; [69]

5. Have an idea for an invention but no formal training? Here's ...

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   Each year through the past decade, at least half a million patent applications come into the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Some of the applications are from firms equipped with financial ...

6. Patentable subject matter in the United States - Wikipedia

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   On review in 2014 the Supreme Court reduced the patent-eligibility of software patents or patents on software for business methods, excluding abstract ideas from the list of eligible subject matters. After much confusion within the patent examiners and patent practitioners, the USPTO prepared a list of examples of software patent claims that ...

7. Software patents and free software - Wikipedia

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   Leading open-source figures and companies [10] have complained that software patents are overly broad and the USPTO should reject most of them. Bill Gates has said "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today".

8. List of software patents - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of software patents, which contains notable patents and patent applications involving computer programs (also known as a software patent). Software patents cover a wide range of topics and there is therefore important debate about whether such subject-matter should be excluded from patent protection. [ 1 ]

9. Patentability - Wikipedia

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   Judging patentability is one aspect of the official examination of a patent application performed by a patent examiner and may be tested in post-grant patent litigation. Prior to filing a patent application, inventors sometimes obtain a patentability opinion from a patent agent or patent attorney regarding whether an invention satisfies the ...