Supreme Court skips over software patent issue in Bilski case - 0 views
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Siobhan Chapman on 29 Jun 10The long-awaited US Supreme Court has side-stepped the question of whether the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) should continue to issue software patents in a ruling Monday striking down a business-method patent. The ruling on Bilski vs. Kappos is a mess. Where many hoped fervently for some clarity to be brought to the ill-defined rules for patenting business methods and software in the US, the court instead was timid in the extreme.