The EU has spoken: the directive for the patenting of computer-implemented inventions is dead. But that does not mean the end for software-related patents, as long as patent attorneys consider all ...

The ingenuity of Utah Valley University’s engineering and computer science students was on full display in an inventions expo Wednesday at the Sorensen Student Center in Orem. Students from 50 ...

Yesterday, in the Emotional Perception appeal, the UK Supreme Court has replaced the Aerotel test for patentability with the “any hardware” approach used by the EPO (as approved by the Enlarged Board ...

“Last year, unitary protection… was requested for about 28,000 patents granted by the EPO, representing slightly more than 25% of all EU patents issued in 2024.” On Tuesday, the European Patent Office ...

Hardly a week goes by without the controversial issue of software patenting hitting the news. Particularly controversial are the business-method software patent filings that are inundating the U.S.

On January 17 2018, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines issued its Guidelines on the Examination of Information Communications Technology (ICT) and Computer Implemented Inventions (CII ...