appropriate test for the patent-eligibility of software-implemented inventions in the post-Bilski era … U.S. patent system must rely more than ever before on patent documents for its own ontological commitments concerning … previously unrecognized function of the patent document in incurring and securing warrants to these ontological commitments, and …

or profitability, number of firms or employees, or research expenditures. The scope of software innovation has become …Software patents have been controversial since the days when "software" referred to the crude programs that came free … during this time. Meanwhile, a software industry developed and has grown to a remarkable size, whether measured by revenues …

Recent developments in patent law, most notably the effective nullification of the Supreme Court's 1972 Benson decision … approach to computer science and technology. Despite this, the patent system has continued to disregard computational …. This Article proposes a development of patent scope doctrine that would introduce the issue of computational complexity …

’s Theorem without paying royalties, but rather if software and algorithms underlying the software are patentable. Although … software is based on algorithms similar to the algorithm discovered by Euclid, in the United States software are generally … patented.Open source paradigm — here explored — could resolve the software patentability issue, in addition to represent the …