Not many IoC patents, lots of applications
Sunday, August 24th, 2008I’m getting prepped for an interview tomorrow, so I was looking at some of the stuff I was working on my last project. Naturally, I wanted to know if anyone patented software related to inversion of control (IoC) patterns.
Interestingly, I did not find even one software patent that covered any part of the pattern – explicitly anyway.
However, I found at least seven published applications that do seem to touch the pattern to varying degrees. For example, there is an application for an “e-ENABLER FRAMEWORK.” According to the abstract, Mr. Batabyal’s framework is “[a] system and application design paradigm in the form of web-architecture, uses self describing modules of reusable services, offering SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) based composite solutions and multiple processes in a dynamic business environment.”
[Warning: don't rely on this for legal advice! I can't give you legal advice, and even if I could, I only spent 15 minutes looking at this!]
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