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Software Is Still Patent Eligible
By Mike Van Loy, Mike Renaud, Sandra Badin, Matt Karambelas, and Nick Mouton
In recent years, software patents have come under fire from legislation (the American Invents Act) that has generally made patents easier to invalidate, and from court decisions (the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank[1] and its progeny) that have made computer-implemented inventions more vulnerable to subject matter eligibility challenges.
Software Audits: Strategies for Licensees
By Julie Korostoff and Joseph DiCioccio
If you have received a software audit request from your software vendor or one of the industry trade groups representing software publishers, such as the Software & Information Industry Association (“SIIA”)1 or the Business Software Alliance (“BSA”)2 you are not alone. Over the past five years, 3 software audits have become an increasingly common revenue-leakage recovery tool for software vendors.
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