“If an invention is ineligible for patent protection now, the same should have been true 50 years ago and should be true 50 years from now.” – Comment by AUTM The deadline for comments on the U.S.

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Australia, China, India, the US and the EPO all have subtly different approaches to the patentability and protection of software inventions. Practitioners from each of the jurisdictions explain the ...

Intellectual property (IP) law provides two different and conflicting ways to protect technology: patent and trade secret protection. A patent protects new and useful inventions. With patent ...