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Information Today July 6, 2010 George H. Pike	Supreme Court Confirms Patentability of Business Methods, Denies Bilski Patent The lengthy and complex decision, entitled Bilski v. Kappos, affirmed the legality of business method patents, while leaving unanswered some questions about the scope and breadth of such patents.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Kirk Teska	Commentary: Business-Method Patents--Down But Not Out? The Bilski case leaves us with more questions than answers
Information Today October 16, 2006 K. Matthew Dames	The Patent System on Tilt: IBM Seeks to Change the Game IBM wants to change the way the patent system works, holding itself out as an exemplar of openness.
InternetNews November 24, 2004 Jim Wagner	Nick Godici, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has been taking a lot of heat in recent years over software patents. Sitting at the center of the firestorm, and the patent process, is Nick Godici, the agency's Commissioner for Patents.
Information Today September 15, 2011 George H. Pike	Congress Enacts Patent Reform Legislation In what is being described as the most substantial overhaul of U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years, Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, patent reform legislation that has been years in the making.
Bank Technology News July 2008 Glen Fest	Intellectual Property on Trial The Financial Services Roundtable and several institutional members such as Bank of America are urging a federal court to overturn the patentability of certain business method processes.
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Roy Mark	Patent Reform: Beware of Unintended Consequences Is it fair to patent software?
CFO May 1, 2008 Marie Leone	Patents under Pressure The battle over business-method patents heads to court in what may be a landmark decision.
Information Today April 2005 George H. Pike	Patenting the Internet The role of Internet patents has come into question as a number of patents have been issued to cover routine Internet practice such as media streaming.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Lee A. Hollaar	Patents 2.0 There are big problems with patents, especially software patents. A new type of patent is needed -- Congress should create a new, limited protection that protects against knockoffs without overreaching.
Bank Systems & Technology June 29, 2010 Matt Gunn	Supreme Court Rejects Business Method Patent Ruling in Bilski v. Kappos doesn't shut door on business method patents, but doesn't clarify them either.
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Andrew W. Torrance	After the Gene Rush About 20,000 gene-related patents have been granted in the U.S. so far, with twice as many on the way. The practical and political challenges are equally large.
Bank Technology News March 2001 John Hackett	In Pursuit of Patents Bankers and their suppliers fear fallout from an over-burdened Patent and Trade Office...
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications Hoping to curtail the orgy of tech-industry litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched an Internet-based peer-review program whereby anyone can help to evaluate a number of software patent applications voluntarily submitted for public evaluation.
Wired June 2000 Evan Ratliff	Patent Upending The invention police can't stand Greg Aharonian, who says the fuss over Amazon's "one-click" plan is old news. The real problem: The government lost its grip on intellectual property long ago....
The Motley Fool October 3, 2007 Rich Duprey	No Patents on Thinking ... Yet Over the years, the U.S. Patent office has patented a few too many ideas. The Supreme Court is now spending more time deciding whether a company has really infringed on a patent, rather than automatically issuing an infringement.
IEEE Spectrum June 2012 Kirk Teska	The Patent Eligibility Bar Gets Raised Again Yet, for the fourth time in 150 years, the Supreme Court fails to clearly distinguish between an invention and an idea
CIO September 28, 2012 Kim S. Nash	Companies Race to the Patent Office to Protect Their IT Breakthroughs There's a patent gold rush under way as savvy companies seek to lock in the competitive advantage from their IT innovations. CIOs ought to seek patents for unique business methods and other inventions made possible by new technology.
PC World April 2006 Andrew Brandt	Patent Overload Hampers Tech Innovation Application backlog and continuing patent disputes add up to a mounting crisis.
InternetNews September 27, 2006 Michael Hickins	IBM Pushes New Patent Policies Patent reform may be on the way, but IBM has decided to change the system on its own and is leading by example.
Chemistry World March 23, 2012 Rebecca Trager	Court throws out patent covering drug dosing The US Supreme Court has said that medical tests that rely on correlations between drug doses and treatment cannot be patented because they are based on laws of nature.
BusinessWeek January 9, 2006 Michael Orey	The Patent Epidemic Overpatenting is wasting companies' money and slowing the development of new products.
InternetNews March 5, 2007 Roy Mark	The 'Wikifying' of Software Patents Utilizing social networking tools, a Patent and Trademark Office pilot program aims to speed applications and better inform patent examiners.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2006 Jack Uldrich	IBM's Patently Good Idea Big Blue's decision to open patents to public scrutiny could spur innovation.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Patent Protection Your valuable intellectual property requires keen oversight. To help keep it safe, consider these actions.
IEEE Spectrum July 2005 Ben Klemens	Software Patents Don't Compute How the U.S. patent system attempts to draw a dividing line between patentable machines and unpatentable mathematics- and why the system is failing.
InternetNews January 10, 2006 Clint Boulton	USPTO Joins Patent Quality Cause The United States Patent and Trademark Office teams with IBM and the OSDL to improve the way patents are constructed and issued in the U.S.
InternetNews November 5, 2004 Jim Wagner	For Innovation's Sake Although today's raft of companies suing other companies over intellectual property rights may give the impression that creative thought is getting muzzled, many industry experts agree that software innovation is alive and well.
InternetNews March 16, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Patently Unfair? Overworked patent examiners and outdated rules are just two of the reasons critics of some tech patents say the process needs fixing.
Chemistry World April 3, 2008 Rebecca Trager	GSK Challenge to US Patent Rules Successful A US district court has said that the US patent office cannot introduce new rules that drug firms argued were a threat to innovation.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2011 John Grgurich	How the Patent Wars Are Hurting High-Tech Well-intentioned patent laws are threatening to stifle innovation.
Chemistry World March 3, 2015 Rebecca Trager	US universities warn against patent reform proposals Legislation pending in the US Congress to address so-called patent trolling is crafted too broadly and would damage the flow of discoveries from academia to the private sector.
The Motley Fool May 17, 2006 Rich Duprey	A Patently Offensive Ruling? eBay vs. MercExchange was the wrong ruling in the right case. Rather than balancing the power between "patent trolls" and innovation, this ruling could end up tipping the scales against small-time inventors who lack the resources to challenge corporations that usurp a patent's advancements.
Inc. July 24, 2002 Jennifer A. Redmond	Strategic Patenting What to consider when you're filing a patent and strategic decisions you'll need to make.
InternetNews January 30, 2007 Roy Mark	Second Look For Dynamic Web Patents The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will review two patents held by EpicRealm, a Texas firm that has filed a number of infringement lawsuits against companies employing dynamic Web technology.
Bank Systems & Technology March 27, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz	Patent Issues a Growing Concern for Banks Unfortunately for the banking industry, legal wrangling around financial services patents is becoming all too common.
Financial Advisor October 2006 Michael Brier	Patently Foolish? Allowing financial firms to patent tax strategies may mean you and your clients have to foot the bill.
Bank Technology News January 2004 Karen Krebsbach	Bight Ideas Financial services firms are deluging the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with applications, which soared 15-fold between 1995 and 2002. Patent attorney Dale Lazar urges banks to get in line: converting valuable ideas into assets can pay off big time.
IEEE Spectrum December 2006 Kirk Teska	Patently Obvious The rules about what can and cannot be patented may soon change.
Popular Mechanics December 9, 2009 Erik Sofge	Inventors Slam Patent Reform Effort Some of America's most prolific inventors say the changes in patent law could seriously impair the culture of innovation that has long driven prosperity in this country.
CFO November 1, 2007 Avital Louria Hahn	Innovators' Dilemma New patent laws may complicate life for inventive companies.
Salon.com October 23, 2000 Damien Cave	Who ya gonna call? Patent busters! BountyQuest CEO Charles Cella explains why his Web site is offering cash to patent destroyers...
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Kirk Teska	The Story Behind the BlackBerry Case A single filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1991 has caused one of the largest patent disputes in recent memory, threatening to sever more than 3 million BlackBerry subscribers from their wireless e-mail service.
Chemistry World November 2, 2007 Rebecca Trager	GSK Blocks US Patent Law Changes Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has temporarily blocked the US Patent and Trademark Office from implementing new rules, which it fears could prevent innovators from obtaining adequate patent coverage on their inventions.
Information Today May 2004 George H. Pike	You Can't Do That, It's Patented There are an increasing number of questionable patent claims that cover Internet technologies and techniques, and permission must be obtained for their use.
Bank Technology News July 2008 Glen Fest	IP Practices Core to Patent Strategy John Cronin, managing director of ipCapital Group, but best known as the founder of IBM's "Patent Factory," says banks themselves are to blame for their patent predicament.
InternetNews November 28, 2006 Roy Mark	High Court Tackles The Not-So-Obvious The United States Supreme Court will talk gas pedals today in a case the technology industry hopes the justices will find all too obvious. The outcome could be a landmark decision that redefines how patents are issued.
Wall Street & Technology September 19, 2006 Paul Allen	Patent Processing For both the patent holders and potential transgressors, technology patents can be a high-stakes game in the financial world, in both monetary awards and ongoing business feasibility.
Bank Technology News April 2006 Glen Fest	Patently Unaware Bankers breathing easier because their Blackberry still work have no cause for relief over patent disputes in their industry. Intellectual property litigation is a booming business against financial institutions.