A mobile app is a computer program designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone/tablet or watch. Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop applications that run on desktop computers, and with web applications which run in mobile web browsers rather than directly on the mobile device. With the advent of technology and enormous usage of mobile phones in the hands [...]
Three years after the Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank case, software patenting had turned virulent. This decision has, in particular, wreaked havoc in the business method art units, where the statistical probability of securing a patent had been low (compared to other art units) even before the Supreme Court Alice decision. Afterwards, it was [...]
The Supreme Court’s most recent ruling on the issue, Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank has left the IP bar without a clear, reliable test to determine when exactly a software (or computer-implemented) claim is patentable versus being simply an abstract idea “free to all men and reserved exclusively to none.” This has left us [...]
Software patents are the patents given for the codes written on computer and used to run different programs. Software patents have become a trend for MNCs nowadays as almost every company is trying to get as much patents as they can get on their softwares. One of the reasons is to safeguard their intellectual [...]
