The EU has spoken: the directive for the patenting of computer-implemented inventions is dead. But that does not mean the end for software-related patents, as long as patent attorneys consider all ...

The rise of AI has intensified the global focus on the protection of computer-related inventions. Pankaj Soni and Neha Malhotra of Remfry & Sagar explain how India’s legislature and judiciary have ...

Engelbart died on Tuesday night, according to an email sent from his daughter, Christiana, to The Computer History Museum in California, where Engelbart had been a fellow since 2005. Ms Engelbart did ...

SIR Clive Sinclair, the British computer pioneer, has died aged 81. The inventor’s daughter said today he died after a long illness at home in London. Please ...

David Sant, head of the EPO’s Brussels office, says the controversy is likely to influence the way in which the EPO granted future patents. “My feeling is that the open source sector will still put ...

Ingenious minds were hard at work in 2013. Here’s a roundup of 10 of our favorite inventions of the past year, ranging from simple lights to scare off lions to complex cancer-detecting computer ...

“Last year, unitary protection… was requested for about 28,000 patents granted by the EPO, representing slightly more than 25% of all EU patents issued in 2024.” On Tuesday, the European Patent Office ...