Based upon the Supreme Court’s questioning during oral arguments in Bilski v. Kappos, it could very well be that getting patents for business methods/software may become a more difficult proposition. A nice summary of the oral arguments can be found at IP Law & Business. Some good resource material regarding software patents can be found at IP Watchdog.
ConnTIP will be relaying more info about this important topic in the future, so keep a look out.
-Gregg J. Lallier
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[...] 01 2010 Back in November, we first posted about the US Supreme Court case of Bilski v. Kappos (Not Looking Good for Method/Software Patents). The Supreme Court heard oral arguments at the end of 2009, and should rule on the case in [...]