Sentences with phrase «old software patents»

Goodlatte's decision to drop the provision is a victory for IBM and Microsoft, which have stacks of old software patents that provide licensing revenue even as their product lines sputter.

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According to a registration with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, on January 13th Microsoft filed for a trademark for old time Xbox exclusive «Phantom Dust» the mark is filed under Class 9, identifying game software, as well as Class 41, online game software.

«For a long time in Canada and the U.S., there's been uncertainty about whether you can patent software - related inventions,» says Courage, adding the decades - old controversy is still ongoing despite software's place as an important and evolving area of the world economy.

An earlier version of the bill contained a provision that would let companies challenge suspicious «business method» patents — many of which cover basic software practices — at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but a powerful lobby of old - guard firms (notably Microsoft (s msft) and IBM (s ibm)-RRB- lobbied to crush that part of the law.

Under the current rules, struggling old guard firms can exploit a broken patent system to abuse monopolies over basic software concepts from decades ago.

For example, we've noted that many software patents take the form: apply well - known technique X in domain Y. For example, our Stupid Patent of the Month from January 2015 applied the years - old practice of remotely updating software to sports video games (the patent was later found invPatent of the Month from January 2015 applied the years - old practice of remotely updating software to sports video games (the patent was later found invpatent was later found invalid).