The Report Generator (“RPG”) is a new program from SAFE that automatically generates draft expert reports and declarations for litigation.

The Supreme Court has decided that Bilski loses his patent, but not because of the machine-or-transformation test. They also ruled that business methods are patentable, as long as they are not abstract ideas.

With all the uncertainty surrounding politics, there is one thing I can be certain of every year. Congress will attempt, or claim to attempt, to reform the U.S. patent system. Patrick Leahy, the chair of the US Senate’s Judiciary Committee, recently announced that reform is around the corner, just as it has been every year for many, many years. Fortunately that corner is always pretty far away. As you can tell, I’m not a fan of so-called patent reform. Here’s a brief explanation why.

The digital computer is usually credited as the invention of two professors at the University of Pennsylvania, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. Funded by the United States Army, the ENIAC computer was designed to calculate tables for launching artillery shells accurately in World War II, but was not completed until after the war in 1946. Unlike earlier computers that had a fixed purpose, ENIAC (meaning “Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer”) could be reprogrammed to handle many different purposes. But were Eckert and Mauchly really the pioneers of today’s modern digital age?

There were a number of large lawsuits involving software IP in 2009. We know that CodeSuite was used in many of them (because of protective orders, we don’t know all the cases where CodeSuite was used).

When a legal case is argued in front of a jury, both sides’ experts present their facts and the truth becomes apparent, right? Of course not–if it were that simple, experts and lawyers would not have much to do.

If you have a research idea relating to code analysis, and you can use the SAFE tools, let us know. If your proposal passes our review process you’ll get free licenses to our tools, free support, and help getting your results published.

Should software be patentable? That’s been debated ever since the dawn of software. Earlier this year, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided that software can be patented if it is implemented on a “particular” machine or it transforms an article from one thing or state to another. So what does that mean exactly? No one is quite certain, so the US Supreme Court decided to take up the appeal this fall and rule on it.

The idea that software can be patentable is a fairly recent one, and still a somewhat controversial one.

Welcome to my blog. I’m the founder and president of SAFE Corporation. I’ll be regularly updating this blog with useful and interesting information about software intellectual property and software analysis. I’ll be posting facts and current events relating to IP litigation, software plagiarism detection (also known as copyright infringement), trade secret theft, and patent infringement. [...]