Intellectual Property
Jun. 21, 2014
Supreme Court ruling unlikely to change patent law, attorneys say
Inventors of business methods cannot patent their new tools by saying they use computers to implement them, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision held Thursday in a case most attorneys think will not transform IP law.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Inventors of business methods cannot patent their new tools by saying they use computers to implement them, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision held Thursday in a case that most attorneys think will not transform intellectual property law.
The ruling has received modest praise by intellectual property lawyers, who are grateful that at least some light has been shed on a murky area of law. The pat...
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