For anyone interested in learning more about the state of affairs for software patents now two years after the Supreme Court Alice decision, I am giving a free webinar this Thursday, April 13, 2016, at 1 PM EST USA on behalf of the Licensing Executives Society. The link to register is below. I wish to thank my friend Sanjay Prasad for this opportunity to speak.
http://www.lesusacanada.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=800491&group=160372
As a patent specialist for many years, software to me represents one of the great things about American ingenuity. Although my practice spans many technologies, the joys of handling these cases has been tempered a bit by Justices’ and legislators’ misguided efforts to thwart one of America’s fortes (and one of our chief exports).
I first wrote code many years ago in Fortran IV, and later got a Masters in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the top schools for that discipline. At UNC, I also studied under Dr. Frederick Brooks, a preeminent scholar and researcher, before heading off to law school and learning to protect inventions of all sorts. Now, over 25 years later and well over a thousand patents defended and obtained for many clients, there are stories to be told.
My talk will address how we got into this situation where innovation is being frustrated and the patent system is perversely held to blame.
This voyage is free. I hope you sign up and join me, where I will define spaghettification;)
Ray Van Dyke
vandyke@acm.org
(202)378-3903 USA
Van Dyke Intellectual Property Law 