The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that software based on an abstract idea doesn’t qualify for a patent. But the ruling stopped shy of invalidating all software patents. Supreme Court justices ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out an Australian company’s patent for business software in a decision that clarifies standards for awarding patents, but not as much as some firms had hoped. In a ...

New ruling in Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank means firms must do more to advance 'abstract' software claims to receive a patent. Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security for CNET News, ...

A landmark 2014 ruling by the Supreme Court called into question the validity of many software patents. In the wake of that ruling, countless broad software patents became invalid, dealing a blow to ...