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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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Steven J. Frank |
The Death of Business-Method Patents From now on, you can get a U.S. patent only on a mousetrap -- not on the idea of catching mice |
Inc. June 2006 Athena Schindelheim |
Great Moments In Patent History With the blockbuster BlackBerry settlement and a case involving eBay before the Supreme Court, the dowdy world of patent law is suddenly hot. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Kirk Teska |
Commentary: Business-Method Patents--Down But Not Out? The Bilski case leaves us with more questions than answers |
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. |
Entrepreneur September 2006 Jane Easter Bahls |
Toppling Trolls Patent trolls take a hit in a Supreme Court ruling. |
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Wayne P. Sobon |
Opinion: The Federal Circuit Must Uphold Patent Protection for Business Methods The decision in the Bilski case will have major implications for business method patents |
IEEE Spectrum December 2006 Kirk Teska |
Patently Obvious The rules about what can and cannot be patented may soon change. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World June 20, 2013 Sarah Houlton |
US supreme court rules genes can't be patented In a long-running case against Myriad Genetics, the court decided the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are a 'product of nature, and not patent eligible merely because [they have] been isolated.' |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Kirk Teska |
How High Is the Patent Bar Now? Has the Supreme Court's ruling eviscerated the patents for hosts of products -- even Apple's iPod? |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2012 Schaeffer & Dahlberg |
Money for Nothing, Patents for Free? State tech transfer laws giving universities automatic ownership of employees' inventions represent a threat to pharma partnerships. |
InternetNews May 10, 2007 Roy Mark |
Vonage Playing Supreme Court Card Vonage claims a recent Supreme Court ruling will make it obvious company didn't infringe on Verizon patents. |
InternetNews November 30, 2010 |
Microsoft's i4i Appeal Headed for Supreme Court Microsoft will get a chance to make its case to the U.S. Supreme Court, appealing the earlier patent infringement decision it lost to i4i. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek January 9, 2006 Lorraine Woellert |
A Docket Packed with Patent Feuds Three key cases will shape a vast swath of the business landscape. At issue: Products, services, even ideas - and whether your BlackBerry stays connected. |
InternetNews February 23, 2007 Roy Mark |
Supreme Doubts on Software Patents In Microsoft v. AT&T, justices went digging for answers about software patents even though the issue wasn't in play. |
InternetNews July 31, 2007 Larry Barrett |
RealNetworks Case Highlights Sea-Change In Patent Law Supreme Court ruling puts patent trolls on notice. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Kirk Teska |
The Foreign Patent Money Trap You may well need patents in many countries, but that doesn't mean you can afford them. |
BusinessWeek May 14, 2007 Michael Orey |
A Higher Hurdle For Inventors Has it become too easy to win and defend patents? The Supreme Court says yes. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek January 9, 2006 Michael Orey |
The Patent Epidemic Overpatenting is wasting companies' money and slowing the development of new products. |
InternetNews August 31, 2010 |
Microsoft Appeals Patent Case to Supreme Court Microsoft plays out its hand in effort to reverse the USPTO's ruling that upheld the patent of Toronto-based i4i relating to a custom XML technology. |
InternetNews November 28, 2006 Roy Mark |
High Court Debates Patent Challenges A highly engaged United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a case that could have wide implications for the future of the country's patent system. |
IndustryWeek August 1, 2006 |
Patents: Eleven Issues To Consider... How patent savvy are you? |
The Motley Fool March 13, 2008 Stephen Albainy-Jenei |
Pfizer's Celebrex Aches and Pains The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upholds a lower court's ruling that found Teva Pharmaceutical had infringed two of Pfizer's patents for Celebrex. |
Smithsonian January 2007 Eric Jaffe |
Patent Pending The Supreme Court may soon reinvent the rules for invention. At issue: whether to change the standard for considering an invention "obvious" -- and therefore ineligible for patent. |
CIO August 1, 2003 Mark Radcliffe |
Patents: A Small Price to Pay for Progress For CIOs, the issue is not whether patents should be granted for software but whether anything can be done to improve the quality of the granted patents. The problem relates more to the examining process in the USPTO than to the appropriateness of patents for software. |
Information Today May 2006 George H. Pike |
Feature: BlackBerry: Lawsuit and Patent Reform Whether through the courts or before Congress, the BlackBerry experience suggests that some modification of patent law is not only likely, it's necessary. |
InternetNews October 26, 2005 Erin Joyce |
Is a U.S. Shut Out Looming For RIM? U.S. Supreme Court ruling keeps the BlackBerry maker's patent-infringement appeal in a federal district court, with the possibility of an injunction against operating in the U.S. looming. |
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. |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Henninger & Feldstein |
Safeguarding the Value of Patent Assets As small biotech firms test the water in partnerships with Big Pharma, the best calling card is a well-framed strategy on intellectual property. |
CIO January 1, 2003 Christopher Koch |
Patently Stupid? It's not clear at the start of 2003 whether the software patent frenzy will cause innovation to flower or be trampled. |
InternetNews April 30, 2007 Roy Mark |
Supreme Court Sides With Microsoft Judges dismiss AT&T claim that overseas sales of Windows are subject to U.S. patent laws. |
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. |
InternetNews May 1, 2007 Roy Mark |
Vonage Asks Court to Vacate Infringement Verdict Vonage late on Tuesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to vacate a lower court decision that the Internet telephone company infringed on patents held by Verizon. |
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 21, 2007 Roy Mark |
Microsoft, AT&T Make Supreme Court Pitches Tech titans square off over Microsoft's use of AT&T speech patent in foreign copies of Windows. |
InternetNews September 3, 2009 |
Microsoft: Can't Our Patent Systems Get Along? Senior Microsoft legal eagle advocates "harmonization" of patent systems worldwide in blog post. |
InternetNews June 9, 2011 |
Microsoft Loses Supreme Court Patent Case Top U.S. court rules against Microsoft in i4i patent appeal. |
The Motley Fool February 13, 2008 Stephen Albainy-Jenei |
One Privileged Position Biomedical Patent Management sued the California Department of Health Services, claiming patent infringement, but the State of California can claim immunity from patent suits. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Ben Klemens |
New Legal Code Copyrights should replace software patents. |