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No Bilski Blockbuster from Supreme Court Today
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| The Supreme Court handed down two
| relatively low-profile decisions this
| morning, leaving to another day some of the
| most-awaited cases of the term like Bilski
| v. Kappos, the business-methods patent-
| eligibility case that was argued last Nov.
| 9. The Court won't be in session again
| until May 17.
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http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/05/no-bilski-blockbuster-from-supreme-court-today.html
Justice Stevens: To Life, To Life, LâChaim
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/05/05/justice-stevens-to-life-to-life-lchaim/
Problems in Re Bilski for SCOTUS
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| The âamicusâ briefs were piled high with
| supporters of software patents. They were all
| trying to dodge the issue one way or another.
| Even Bilski and the opposition both skirted
| the issue as best they could. The patent
| office does not want business methods patents
| but does want software patents (It has issued
| thousands.). One argument was that adding
| software to a computer made the computer a
| specific machine even if it did not transform
| anything more than bits of information. Has
| âabstractâ lost its meaning with people?
| Information, itself, is an abstraction, the
| idea that we can have an idea about ideasâ
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/05/08/problems-in-re-bilski-for-scotus/
Recent:
John Paul Stevens, Defender of High-Tech Freedom
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| Patents: The explosion of software patents
| is one of the biggest threats to innovation
| in the software industry, and Justice
| Stevens saw this threat coming almost three
| decades ago. Stevens wrote the majority
| decision in the 1978 case of Parker v.
| Flook, which clearly disallowed patents in
| the software industry. Three years later,
| Stevens dissented in the 1981 case of
| Diamond v. Diehr, which allowed a patent on
| a software-controlled rubber-curing
| machine. Although the majority decision
| didnât explicitly permit patents on
| software, Stevens warned that the
| majorityâs muddled decision would
| effectively open the door to software
| patents. And he has been proven right. In
| the three decades that followed, the
| patent-friendly U.S. Court of Appeals for
| the Federal Circuit has effectively
| dismantled limits on software patents. And
| the result has been a disaster, with high-
| tech firms being forced to spend large sums
| on litigation rather than innovation.
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http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/04/09/john-paul-stevens-defender-of-high-tech-freedom/
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