One of the things that makes protecting computer related inventions tricky is that first you have to define the invention, and defining the invention is not something that is altogether easy when the ...

A computer is mostly a digital copy machine. Computers calculate, compare and copy (see 3 C's), but unless they are used for scientific purposes, they do more copying than anything else. Copying is ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is radically updating the Patent Bar Examination starting in April 2011. Since I teach the PLI Patent Bar Review Course that has required John White and I ...

People used to be computers. That is, for hundreds of years, computing was the work of humans, and very often women. Then, in the mid-20th century, machines began to take on the bulk of computing work ...