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- Artificial Intelligence, Software Patents
The landscape of intellectual property and invention is facing unprecedented upheaval, with artificial intelligence promising to both liberate and potentially overtake human inventors. But what may seem like a minefield of IP questions might actually be easier to navigate than…
- Artificial Intelligence, Patent Strategies, Software Patents, White Papers
Are you a founder, executive, investor, or software developer interested in learning more about which intellectual property (IP) protection is right for your artificial intelligence technology, whether that be patents, trade secrets, or a combination of both? Or maybe you’re…
- Firm News, Patent Strategies, Software Patents
Practical Law—a publisher of trusted, up-to-date legal information and best practices—recently published a guide on patent drafting for software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology, authored by Blueshift IP co-founder and software patent expert Robert Plotkin. With SaaS becoming a dominant model in software…
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- Software Patents, Startup advice
I hear many high-tech entrepreneurs say, “Patents are worthless. They stop competitors from copying you, but our competitors aren’t copying us. Our main problem is developing and selling our products, not stopping copiers. What we need to succeed is first-mover…
- Software Patents
This is the first in a series of articles on how to determine whether your software is patentable. If you are an inventor, in management at a high tech company, or a patent lawyer outside the U.S. this will help…
- Software Patents, Startup advice
This is part 2 in a series of articles on how to determine whether your software is patentable. If you are an inventor, an executive at a tech company, or a patent lawyer outside the U.S., this will help you…
- Software Patents, Startup advice
This is part 3 in a series of articles on how to determine whether your software is patentable. If you are an inventor, an executive at a tech company, or a patent lawyer outside the U.S., this will help you…
- Software Patents, Startup advice
This is the fourth and final part in a series of articles on how to determine whether your software is patentable. If you are an inventor, an executive at a tech company, or a patent lawyer outside the U.S., this…
- Software Patents, Startup advice
We had such a positive response to our four-part series on How to Determine Whether Software is Patentable that we have added two more bonus parts to the series. This is part 5, which explains another criterion that you can…