Sentence examples for method software from inspiring English sources

In 1999, 583 business method software patents were issued.

The agency issued 161,000 patents over all in 1999, so the number of business method software patents was still a fraction of the total.

The explosion in e-commerce has been followed by a boom in business method software patents, as more entrepreneurs and investors realize the value of owning a way to do business on the Internet.

But while promoting its makeover last week, the patent and trademark agency also took the opportunity to address a heated controversy over the way it handles business method software patents, a category that includes patents on ways of doing business on the Internet.

The real import of the changes, however, appears to come not from the patent office's efforts to streamline operations, but from revised procedures for handling the increasing number of applications for Internet-related patents, like those in business method software and electronic commerce.

Accurate numerical electrochemical impedance spectra at channel electrodes are obtained using commercial finite element method software.

The static temperature distribution of BESIII magnet can be calculated with a commercial FE method software-Ansys.

Software makers and others would find themselves dealing with Group 705, a department created in 1997 to process patents for business-method software.

What is clear, however, is that the weapon of many non-practicing entities (more commonly known as "patent trolls") — the business-method software patent — is likely dead.

In addition, computational methods (software: MassChrom2D, COCONUT, 2D maps etc).

For larger methods, software- and hardware-based options are possible to resolve this issue.