On Jan. 7, the U.S. Patent Office issued further guidance on the application of 35 U.S.C. Section 112 during examination of computer-implemented functional claim limitations (112 guidance). At the ...

NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to remember the legacy of computer scientist Larry Tesler, the man who came up the copy-and-paste function. Tesler died this week at the age of 74. A moment now to ...

Before Hughes, Reyna, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District for the Western District of Washington. Summary: A patentee’s allegation that computer method claims made data analysis more ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. As nuclear operations become increasingly digitized, so ...

The sometimes fractured court came together Friday to draw a clear line between patent-eligible tech inventions and abstract ideas. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has taken some ...

New microelectronics device can program and reprogram computer hardware on demand through electrical pulses. What if computers could learn to reconfigure their circuits when presented with new ...