Patent protection is perhaps the most contentious form of IP protection for software.  There is no surer way to start a fight amongst the various interest groups interested in patents than to discuss software patents

As patent practitioners know, the law sometimes defines technical topics in ways that do not always accord with how engineers and scientists understand those same topics.

Once the company selects a potential outsourced manufacturing partner, it should design a transaction structure that reinforces its commercial expectations and the manufacturer’s contractual obligations.