UPDATE:  I am pleased to report that my post seems to have created some waves, and just a little over two months after posting

A report from today’s IEEE Patent Committee (PatCom) meeting suggests IEEE is considering the unprecedented step of amending FRAND commitments after they were submitted.

After lots of coverage of the IEEE and a long pause, the humble blog author begs your apology for not providing the latest update – as he has been busy dealing with other pressing matters.

ISO standards quality control assurance warranty business technology concept.

In December 2021, only a few days after U.S. Department of Justice AAG for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter took office, and long before the USPTO and NIST had confirmed leadership in place

Finally, other than various state law trespass and common law claims, the most common form of protection for software is a simple contract.

A widely used method of software protection is through trade secret law under the Economic Espionage Act (EEA)

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

One of the other protections available for software that is collateral to copyright is codified in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

I submitted comments to the US Department of Justice’s call for comments that we previously discussed here.