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Supreme Court Rules Against Expansion of Business-Method Patents

June 28th, 2010 galengentry No comments
The Supreme Court ruled that two inventors’ patent of a method of hedging weather-related risk in energy prices may not be granted. The high court unanimously agreed with a lower-court ruling that said a process is eligible for a patent only if it is “tied to a particular machine or apparatus” or if it “transforms a particular article into a different state or thing.”

The justices agreed with an appeals court that the method was too abstract to be patented. The Supreme Court used a different analysis to reach that conclusion, disagreeing with the legal test used by the lower court.   Read the Wall Street Journal article on the court decision.

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United States Patent Office To Advertise For Employees In Playboy

April 1st, 2010 galengentry No comments

The United States Patent Office issued a press release today stating that henceforth it would seek patent examiners by running ads in Playboy.  The Office went on to state that rumors that everything worth inventing had been invented now that the ipad was a reality were in fact true.

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