Following the Supreme Court's rejection of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's "machine-or-transformation" test as the sole test for determining patent eligibility in Bilski v. Kappos, ...

Intellectual Property Law Business Method Patents Gain Momentum The latest legal developments in the area of business method patents provides even more impetus for every business to consistently ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Software companies and other businesses are watching closely as a U.S appeals court weighs whether an inventor can patent an abstract process -- something that involves nothing ...

Law360 (October 27, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT) -- With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit expected to hand down a decision in the closely watched In re: Bilski case as early as this week, ...

Business method patent owners were dealt a blow this week after the PTAB confirmed it will assume the “broadest reasonable interpretation” of a patent when considering if its claims are too ...

The Federal Court of Canada recently issued a landmark decision regarding patent eligibility, holding that business methods can be patented in appropriate circumstances. In Amazon.com v The Attorney ...

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 ...