Patent law usually remains an esoteric and fairly quiet corner of the legal system. From time to time, however, patent issues erupt as the focus of vocal and highly public debates. This is one such ...

Following the Supreme Court's rejection of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's "machine-or-transformation" test as the sole test for determining patent eligibility in Bilski v. Kappos, ...

In Bilski v.Kappos, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday that a non-computer-implemented commodities risk-hedging business method is not patent-eligible because such an invention is merely an ...

Imagine receiving a letter from a company offering to let you license a patent covering a computer-related business method for $50,000. Should you pay it? What if the company claims that its patent ...

There is huge potential in business-method patents, and the financial sector in the US has begun to realize this. As in so many other areas of intellectual property, Europe is being needlessly left ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Software companies and other businesses are watching closely as a U.S appeals court weighs whether an inventor can patent an abstract process -- something that involves nothing ...

Business method patent owners were dealt a blow this week after the PTAB confirmed it will assume the “broadest reasonable interpretation” of a patent when considering if its claims are too ...

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