Software patents
2012-09-15 17:25:33.340654+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming, Mark A. Lemley. An InfoWorld article explaining:
Lemley's thesis is radically simple: "Most software patents today are written in functional terms," he writes. "If courts would faithfully apply the 1952 Act, limiting those claims to the actual algorithms the patentees disclosed and their equivalents, they could prevent overclaiming by software patentees and solve much of the patent thicket problem that besets software innovation."
Having read a few software patents recently I suspect Lemley isn't as educated on the things as he'd wish, because the ones I've read did explain the algorithms in play, but I'm not as up on software patent litigation as I probably ought to be.