Sentences with phrase «software patent owners»

Drafting Software Patents in a Post-Alice World April 16, 2015 It has been a challenging year for software patent owners following the Supreme Court's decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International.

Reading commentary on the case has made me more convinced that software patent owners should be worried.

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Patent lawsuits are stifling innovation at the highest levels (see: Apple, Google) all the way down to tiny, potentially high - growth software startups by forcing business owners, particularly in the technology space, to spend excessive sums of money to defend their products.

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The team's client base includes a mix of software, electronics, retail and pharmaceutical companies; recent work includes representing Groth & Co in negotiations with owners of similar trade marks, and acting for an individual entrepreneur in a registration application before the Russian Patent & Trademark Office.

Passing strong patent reform legislation will enhance the patent system we support and protect the people we have been fighting for, including retailers, auto manufacturers and dealers, angel investors, venture capitalists, casino owners, newspaper publishers, small print shops, credit unions, non-profit groups, hardware and software manufacturers, Realtors ®, and home builders, just to name a few.

In each case, the business was threatened by a patent owner asserting a highly abstract software patent.

To make things worse, the claims in software patents (this is the language that is supposed to mark the boundaries of the invention) are often vague and overbroad — giving unscrupulous patent owners the ability to claim that their patent covers a wide range of technology.