Software is once again unpatentable in the United States

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Quote from http://www.pli.edu/patentcenter/blog.asp?view=plink&id=368 :
>
> Here are the highlights:
>
>  * The Federal Circuit rejected the that the "useful, concrete and tangible
>        result" inquiry as being inadequate.
>
>  * Patentability under 101 does not depend on process steps, but rather
>        requires a tangible machine or transformation into a different state.
>
>  * *Software* *is* *once* *again* *unpatentable* *in* *the* *United* *States*
>
>  * In order to protect what was formerly known as patentable software we
>        will have to go back to claiming a machine that provides certain
>        functionality.
>
>  * Software patents that have been issued under the previous understanding
>        of the law are almost certainly now worthless.


Wait a few months. It's likely that some involved haven't received
their cheques yet.

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