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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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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