Bilski to raise questions for different industries
17 November 2008
Eileen McDermott, New York
Patent practitioners highlighted the looming questions facing various industries as a result of the US Federal Circuit decision in In re Bilski in a web seminar held last week
The eagerly awaited
Bilski
decision was
published
on October 30. While the Court reaffirmed that business methods are patentable, it rejected its previous "useful, concrete and tangible result" test, saying the "machine-or-transformation" test set out by the Supreme Court is the proper test to apply.
That test requires that, to be patentable, an invention must either be somehow tied to a machine or transformed into "a different state or thing".
The participants in Managing IP's webcast, held last Tuesday, dissected what the test means, what the decision as a whole signifies for the future for business method patents and what implications
Bilski
will have in other areas, such as life sciences.
The panellists were...
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