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• The Next Patent Frontier -- Financial Product Patents ( February 2003 )
  Paul E. Schaafsma of Foley & Lardner LLP

  Like their software predecessors in the 1980s and their fallen Internet brethren of the 1990s, managers of financial products and services are entering a brave new world where management of intellectual property assets has become vital to protecting their bottom line. This new management challenge is a result of the steady expansion by the courts of what innovations are subject to patent protection.

• Patenting Methods Of Doing Business ( September 2000 )
  Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

  Q. WHY PATENT A BUSINESS METHOD? A. REVENUE GENERATED FROM PATENT LICENSING Prior to the recent Federal Circui.

• Federal Circuit Makes Significant Decision on Patentability of Mathematical Algorithms ( September 1999 )
  Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

  The Federal Circuit recently issued an en banc decision which will significantly impact the patentability of math.

• Protection and Exploitation of Financial Services Software ( August 1998 )
  Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP

  This article concerns the State Street decision by a three-judge panel of the Federal Circuit Court which circumscribes the exception against mathematical algorithms and lays to rest the idea that business methods are unpatentable subject matter.