For the first time in a generation, the nation's highest court on Monday pondered the question of which inventions are eligible for patent protection. For the petitioner, Bernard Bilski, the issue was ...

This morning, the Supreme Court decided the long-running Bilski case (PDF) on business method patents—a case with broad applicability to software patents. As expected, the Court struck down the Bilski ...

Since at least 1998 business methods have been patentable in the United States. This is thanks to the decision of the United States Court of Appeals in State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature ...

We have seen on all our news feeds how inflation is at a 40-year high. It was the early 1980s when the U.S. experienced inflation at the rates we have now, peaking in April 1980 at 14.86%. Did ...

In late October, China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) released a set of guidelines for Chinese patent examiners that revises the last guidelines put in place in 2010. Although SIPO has ...

I am the founder and CEO of Apriorit, a software development company that provides engineering services globally to tech companies. Nowadays, cyber attackers are armed with an impressive range of ...

From humble beginning on an internal project at Microsoft, the Kanban method for software development quickly grew to spawn blogs, books and conferences. CIO.com takes a look at the essentials of the ...

Selecting software is a critical decision with significant implications. Evaluations limited to function and cost are insufficient given the financial and organizational investment. Assessing ...

In today's fast-changing market environment, embedded-systems developers must struggle with last-minute design changes and a growing list of potential target architectures incorporating multiple ...