This is good news from the courts in my native UK. We now have the definitive ruling on whether software functionality is copyrightable or not. And the answer is that no, functionality cannot be ...

Europe’s highest court has ruled that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language cannot be protected by copyright The Court of Justice of the EU went on to say in its ...

New fire extinguisher inspection software functionality embedded in the BirdDog Mobile Inspection System offers powerful capabilities to streamline & simplify the inspection & tracking of fire ...

Expanding program trading capabilities will top the list of priorities for execution and order management software provider Linedata next year, driven by buy-side demand, the firm’s head of trading ...

Editor’s Note: In the third in a four part series Abhik Roychoudhury, author of Embedded Systems and software validation, discusses the pros and cons of metric base fault localization and directed ...

Software companies today face enormous pressure to innovate, both in their product and business model, where changes to traditional billing practices have forced the industry to adopt subscription- ...

Editor’s Note: In the final part in a four part series Abhik Roychoudhury, author of Embedded Systems and software validation, explains the usefulness of formal verification techniques to ...

This type of functionality poses several risks, foremost among them, the software is transmitting potentially unknown information and data off the licensee’s systems. That data may contain ...

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Aristocrat Technologies will require software patent drafters to take more care to describe algorithms covered by their software--or risk patent invalidity.