Vote now in Managing IP's Bilski ballot
09 February 2010
Eileen McDermott, New York
While patent practitioners wait for the Supreme Court ruling in Bilski v Kappos - which could come as early as next week - you can choose sides in the business method battle right now
Managing IP readers can share their views on the Bilski case via our online poll, where you can cast your vote as to what you think the Court should decide.
In November last year, inventors Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw brought their case challenging the USPTO’s rejection of their business method patent before the highest court in the US. The Supreme Court justices asked counsel for both parties some tough questions about patent-eligible subject matter that left the IP community wondering whether the Court may uphold the Federal Circuit’s machine-or-transformation test.
Citing Supreme Court jurisprudence excluding so-called fundamental principles from patent eligibility, the Federal Circuit...
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