A fundamental principle of patent application drafting is that the patent applicant can be his or her own lexicographer. Patent professionals say that all the time, but what does it mean? Being your ...

For nearly five decades, just being able to get software to run on hardware and communicate with other systems was considered a feat of engineering. But with that part of the technology solved well ...

Software that generates applications from descriptions of the problem rather than traditional programming. Application generators are easier to use than programming languages such as C/C++ and Java, ...

A set of instructions by which an application program (a complete program that performs a specific function directly for the user) can access the computer's operating system. This term was viewed ...