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Your Business Method Patent Has Just Been Invalidated
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| This ruling raises a ton of questions like that across literally thousands of
| patents. And it is a good thing too because business-method patents tend to
| be overly broad and abused.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/30/your-business-model-patent-has-just-been-invalidated/
Goodbye to Most Business Method & Software Patents?
http://techliberation.com/2008/10/30/goodbye-to-most-business-method-software-patents/
Of Patents and Property
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| As long-suffering readers of this blog will have noticed, one of my favourite
| hobby-horses is that the whole idea of "intellectual property” is a trick,
| designed to plug into the warm and fuzzy feeling most people have about the
| idea of property, and aiming to cover up the fact that what we are really
| dealing with here are intellectual monopolies – of which few people are fans.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1460
Software and business method patents may still be valid
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| “Because there’s no categorical exclusion of these things they probably ought
| to look at those individual patents to see if they have any value. But you
| have to look at it patent by patent.”
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| That’s the word from Bruce Wieder, who heads the patent practice over at Dow
| Lohnes PLLC in Washington. As always this new legal decision is really great
| for lawyers.
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| So what will they be looking for? According to Wieder the court set a simple
| test. “Business method patents must be tied to a machine,” one that does real
| transformations of something. You can’t just patent the idea.
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| For software it’s the same thing. “You have to look at what the software
| does.” The court gives the example of a machine that cures rubber. You can
| patent the machine, but not the software timing the process.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3058
Recent:
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| Staff at the European Patent Office went on strike accusing the organization
| of corruption: specifically, stretching the standards for patents in order to
| make more money.
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| One of the ways that the EPO has done this is by issuing software patents in
| defiance of the treaty that set it up.
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http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-jul-oct.html#24%20September%202008%20%28Patent%20Office%20on%20Strike%29
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