Financial Product Innovators Increasingly Seek Patent Protection for the Creations
September 5, 2003
A new wave of patent activity is rushing through the securities industry as more Wall Street dealers and other financial institutions are trying to protect the investment they’ve made in developing innovative securities investments. Most of the new financial industry patent interest has been focused on technological innovations in debt securities, new derivatives and mutual funds, according to Stephen Glazier, a lawyer with Kirkpatrick &