Showing posts with label Bilski. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bilski. Show all posts

Friday, April 30, 2010

On the limits of patent protection

Patent on diagnostic testing for genetic susceptibility to the most common hereditary forms of breast and ovarian cancer held invalid.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Oral argument in In Re Bilski before the US Supreme Court

See the transcript. Justice Breyer posed a slightly provoking question: "You know, I have a great, wonderful, really original method of teaching antitrust law, and it kept 80 percent of the students awake. They learned things --
(Laughter.)
JUSTICE BREYER: It was fabulous. And I could probably have reduced it to a set of steps and other teachers could have followed it. That you are going to say is patentable, too?
MR. JAKES: Potentially".

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The US Goverment's position on Bilski

A suggestion that software should be left substantially patentable? S. also Groklaw's post.