Impact of US Patent Reform Act
OpinionWire Articles
Michael Azoff - Published 23/08/2007
The history of software patents in the USA is one of accidental evolution rather than thoughtful planning. Essentially, the IT industry became aware that there was nothing in existing patent legislation to exclude software from being covered. Within the system, software was treated alongside any other patent application on an equal basis – there is no ‘software patent legislation’ as such in the USA, just ‘patent legislation’. So almost overnight, IT vendors scrambled to get their software innovations pa…
