IP/Internet/New Media Blog » Patent http://netlaw.robertlink.org blog for intellectual property, internet, and social media law Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:51:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Supreme Court Rules Against Expansion of Business-Method Patents http://netlaw.robertlink.org/2010/06/28/supreme-court-rules-against-expansion-of-business-method-patents/ http://netlaw.robertlink.org/2010/06/28/supreme-court-rules-against-expansion-of-business-method-patents/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:21:16 +0000 galengentry http://netlaw.robertlink.org/?p=296 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.

]]> http://netlaw.robertlink.org/2010/06/28/supreme-court-rules-against-expansion-of-business-method-patents/feed/ 0 United States Patent Office To Advertise For Employees In Playboy http://netlaw.robertlink.org/2010/04/01/united-states-patent-office-to-advertise-for-employees-in-playboy/ http://netlaw.robertlink.org/2010/04/01/united-states-patent-office-to-advertise-for-employees-in-playboy/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:49:21 +0000 galengentry http://netlaw.robertlink.org/?p=253 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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