There is huge potential in business-method patents, and the financial sector in the US has begun to realize this. As in so many other areas of intellectual property, Europe is being needlessly left ...

Since State Street, Congress and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have been working to determine how best to handle business method patent applications. A recently introduced bill seeks to impose ...

Imagine receiving a letter from a company offering to let you license a patent covering a computer-related business method for $50,000. Should you pay it? What if the company claims that its patent ...

The latest pronouncement on the patentability of business methods, In re Bilski, arises in a legal environment in which there is an ongoing struggle to understand what it takes for business methods to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Software, biotech firms and others who develop new ways to do business will be watching closely on Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court hears a case that could determine if such ...

In Bilski v.Kappos, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday that a non-computer-implemented commodities risk-hedging business method is not patent-eligible because such an invention is merely an ...

Following the Federal Circuit's decision in In re Bilski (Fed Cir 2008), when a method claim is not tied to a particular machine or apparatus and does not transform a particular article into a ...

The confusion surrounding business method patents and, in more general terms, software patents (called ‘computer-implemented inventions’ in the European Patent Organisation’s (EPO) official ...

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