A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, libraries, user interface, or algorithm. A patent is a set of exclusionary...

Opposition to software patents is widespread in the free software community. In response, various mechanisms have been tried to defuse the perceived problem...

The software patent debate is the argument about the extent to which, as a matter of public policy, it should be possible to patent software and computer-implemented...

The patentability of software, computer programs and computer-implemented inventions under the European Patent Convention (EPC) is the extent to which...

supposed to be patentable, and concrete implementations (i.e. the actual software packages implementing the patent) are not supposed to be patentable either—the...

of software patents, which contains notable patents and patent applications involving computer programs (also known as a software patent). Software patents...

Neither software nor computer programs are explicitly mentioned in statutory United States patent law. Patent law has changed to address new technologies...

of patents. Particular types of patents for inventions include biological patents, business method patents, chemical patents and software patents. Although...

defensively. There are ongoing patent wars between the world's largest technology and software corporations. Contemporary patent wars are a global phenomenon...

business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against...