Microsoft’s Language-Integrated Query (Linq) technology also provides for functional programming, he says. “Almost every programming language now is adopting features from functional languages.” ...

But no. Functional programming isn’t what it isn’t. Functional programmers aren’t ascetics. Haskell is not a “bondage and discipline” language. (If I’m into both, it’s just a ...

Functional language is often employed in claims in order to obtain a broader claim than one that recites purely structural limitations. The premise for this is that there is more than one way to ...

Functional programming languages were, until recently, languages for computer science. Based on a pure mathematical approach to programming, they were the basis of much modern computer science ...

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, it has moved from a niche feature of a few uncommonly used languages to a ...

Functional claim language is increasingly being used by practitioners to capture the metes and bounds of an invention, especially in computer-implemented inventions. Sometimes using functional ...

Functional Languages seem to be pushing for the title of the next cool thing. Talks and tutorials about them are starting to show up in conferences and conventions, books about them are hitting the ...

Functional languages like Clojure, Scala, and Haskell scored the best for software quality; TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript, also did well. Balshakhi Ray, ...

Part 1 of this articled — Avoiding Invocation of Functional Claim Language — focused on the general principles of law surrounding functional claim language in the context of computer ...

These cases show the advantage of using functional language in a product or process claim. The patents at issue are U.S. Patent Nos. 8,858,996 and 8,865,190.