Consider the following: You’re about to take on employee number two (or three) to tackle some software development issues while you shift back to the big picture. Your boyfriend’s cousin’s classmate is a top-notch programmer looking for something full-time, and everything clicks into place. Not only does he tackle the task at hand, but he […]

The question of whether software should be patentable stirs up strong feelings in the tech community, on both the pro and con sides, a divide that also extends to the law, which has struggled for almost 50 years to provide concrete guidance on how software should be treated by patent law, if at all. An […]

What Is Patent Pending To paraphrase the always quotable Ralph Wiggum: “Miss Hoover, what’s a patent?” You probably already have a general understanding of what a patent is and what it covers, but the USPTO offers different varieties, any one of which may be more appropriate for your concept than the others. The three most […]