Software Patenting: Another Setback

Software Patenting: Another Setback

Intellectual property law forbids the patenting of abstract ideas.  After all, imagine if someone had patented the immutable laws of physics – that person could have an infringement case against everyone under the sun.  But, is a software-based invention inherently too abstract an idea to be patented?  Software programmers who want to file patents hope Read more about Software Patenting: Another Setback[…]