It's a step in the right direction, but we still need legislation. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Hopefully, today's Supreme Court decision will have the effect of slowing down substantially the issuing of bad software patents.
Simply expressing an algorithm in computer code doesn't make it patentable, unless the algorithm itself is patentable.
Abstract ideas aren't patentable, so abstract ideas embedded in computer code aren't patentable.
Judge Randall Rader, the ex-Chief of the patent court, already embarrassed by ethics violations, is spanked unanimously by the Supremes in today's opinion; he is leaving that court at the end of the month.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-298_7lh8.pdf
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/13/us-usa-court-ip-idUSKBN0EO2OO20140...
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