Written by: Kristyn Webb, Legal Intern at HØIBERG (Summer 2016)
In common law jurisdictions, as the U.S., the law can be affected retroactively. For patents, this means that on any given day, a court can hand down a decision about someone else’s patent - and that decision can invalidate your patent. Read the article to see how one such decision has had a large impact on patenting software in the US and to understand the fundamentals of the common law system just a little better.