Business-method patents should be an integral part of strategic planning for banks and other organizations in the financial sector. Typically covering services offered over the internet or to web-based back-office operations, business-method patents can be used to exclude rivals from markets or to generate significant amounts of licensing revenue. As such, they are tools that no financial institution can nowadays afford to overlook. But talk to practitioners working in this area and you will find that all too often this is exactly what happens.
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