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Supreme Skepticism Over Bilski Claims Puts Method Patents on Shaky Ground
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| For the first time in almost 30 years, the
| U.S. Supreme Court on Monday considered the
| issue of what types of technology should be
| eligible for patent protection when it heard
| oral arguments in Bilski v. Kappos.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/iplawandbusiness/PubArticleIPLB.jsp?id=1202435308131
Justices Show Supreme Skepticism About Broad Business Model Patents
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091110/0111136865.shtml
Bilski oral argument highlights (or rather, lowlights...)
http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000001847
Recent:
FSF files brief in Bilski case calling on the Supreme Court to eliminate software patents
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| The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today submitted an amicus
| curiae brief calling on the Supreme Court to affirm that software
| ideas are not patentable. After outlining the positive impact that
| the free software movement and the GNU General Public License (GNU
| GPL) have had on computer use, the brief explains how software
| patents are an obstacle and a danger to software developers.
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http://www.fsf.org/news/bilski-supreme-court-brief
SFLC files Bilski brief: Software should not be patentable and don't forget the 1st Amendment
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| The Software Freedom Law Center has now filed its brief in Bilski.
| You can read it online here, as well as download it as a PDF or as
| Postscript. It raises three major points: 1) software is just
| algorithms for computers in human readable terms, and algorithms
| are not patentable; 2) excluding software from patentable subject
| matter encourages innovation in software; and 3) the First
| Amendment prohibits permitting the patenting of abstract ideas. I
| think you'll find that last point the most interesting.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091002213301495
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