Those looking to wittle away at the patentability of software patents, a recent decision by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), Bancorp Services v. Sun Life states that, To salvage an otherwise patent-ineligible process, a computer must be integral to the claimed invention, facilitating the process in a way that a person making [&hellip
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Kelora Patent Found Obvious: Are Other “Obvious” Software Patents In Danger?
Editor’s Note: This article originally appears in TechCrunch. As software patent litigation ramped up over the past few years, software patents have come under the microscope within the technical community. Manyinvestors and technologists believe that software patents should be abolished all together, while others take the less extreme position that many software patents are obvious over [&hellip
Facebook, Yahoo and abolishing software patents
You will read and hear a lot regarding software patents in the aftermath of the lawsuit filed by Yahoo vs Facebook over ten of its patents. For example, Mark Cuban hopes this lawsuit leads to a 50 billion dollar judgment for Yahoo in order to bankrupt Facebook and incite change in the patent system through [&hellip
So Who Are Facebook’s Patent Friends?
Earlier this week, I noted that Facebook currently owns 43 patents (and about 80 patent applications). In fact, there are only 42 currently issued patents, with one patent being listed twice. Today, I am taking a look at those 42 patents to see where they came from. Of the 42 patents, 10 were based on [&hellip
So how many patents do Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn, Twitter really have?
Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn and Twitter are four of the most important startups of the past few years, so their patent portfolios are worth monitoring. How many patents do these four companies have? This morning, the popular Twitterer @counternotions made the following inaccurate tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/counternotions/status