Managing Intellectual Property

US Supreme Court to rule on business method patents

01 June 2009

Eileen McDermott, New York

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal filed by inventors Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw requesting it to reverse the Federal Circuit’s decision in In re Bilski, which changed the test for determining patentable subject matter in the US

The Court’s decision, when it makes it, could affect the patentability of software and business method patents....



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