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Did Pre-Bilski Claim Construction Help Doom Patent Validity In District Court?

July 13, 2009

U.S. District Courts in California continue to be somewhat hostile towards patent applications when it comes to the question of what constitutes patentable subject matter.  On July 7, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California applied the Bilski machine-or-transformation test to the patentability of a method claim and found the claimed system [...]

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Business Method Patent Tips Offered In Wake of Bilski, Comiskey, MuniAuction

June 19, 2009

Patent practitioners discussed the viability of business method/software patent protection during a recent BNA audioconference looking at recent decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  But, they also provided clues on best strategies for litigating patents that have already been granted.
The June 3rd conference, sponsored by BNA’s Legal & Business EDge division, [...]

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Supreme Court Will Hear Bilski Despite SG’s Recommendation

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The case is a challenge to an en banc ruling last October by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that a process for predicting and hedging risk in commodities markets did not deserve a patent, because it was not tied to a machine, and did not result in a physical transformation.
 
The In [...]

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Another Bill Introduced To Prohibit Patents On Tax Planning Methods

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The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants applauded Representative Rick Boucher, a Democrat from Virginia, and Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican, for introducing legislation that would prohibit patents on tax planning methods.
 
“We need this bill so that U.S. tax laws will be applied equally to all taxpayers,” AICPA President and CEO Barry Melancon [...]

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Solicitor General Opposes Review Of Bilski Patentable Subject Matter Test

May 7, 2009

The In re Bilski machine-or-transformation test for patentable subject matter is “drawn directly from” the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions on the issue, the U.S. Solicitor General argued in a May 4 brief submitted in opposition to the petition for a writ of certiorari in the case (Bilski v. Doll, U.S., No. 08-964, brief filed 5/4/09).
 
Saying [...]

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District Court Judge’s Observations On Business Method Patents After Bilski

April 5, 2009

Back on March 27, we discussed where Bilski was applied in a recent case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to invalidate a patent held by CyberSource Corp. for a system to detect fraud in online credit card transactions.  The Harvard Journal of Law & Technology’s Jolt Digest also has [...]

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Bilski Test For Patentable Subject Matter Applied in District Court

March 27, 2009

CyberSource Corp. v. Retail Decisions Inc., case number 04-cv-03268, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
A federal judge invalidated a patent held by CyberSource Corp. for a system to detect fraud in online credit card transactions, finding that it does not meet the Bilski test. Retail Decisions Inc. was the [...]

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