Last week I wrote about the multimedia patent minefield and how the proliferation of digital media patents drove the BBC to the unorthodox step of developing its own open source media coder/decoder ...

Over the past few years, two aspects of patent law in the United States have come under increasing scrutiny. First, there's been the rise of patent trolls who scoop up broad patents on particular ...

“[T]he rejection of the Aerotel approach by the EPO cannot sensibly be described as just a preference for a different methodology or practice among a range of options potentially available. It is a ...

A case before the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week could have a huge impact on business-method and software patents, with some experts concerned that the court could put significant limits on what ...

Patent law may be a potential friend to those engaging in open-source/free software development. But the picture is not all rosy. To evaluate how best to take advantage of patent law to achieve an ...