IP/Internet/New Media Blog » supreme court 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.

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