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Patent Court: You Can No Longer Patent Thin Air
Mashable! — ... sounds like a pretty reasonable ruling, although two judges offered dissenting opinions. While Friendster so far hasn’t tried to enforce their patent by going after competing social networks – all of which would seemingly be in violation based on their patent claims – you can imagine the type of drama and disruption of innovation it would cause in our space if they did. For some more in-depth analysis of the ruling and its legal ramifications, check out Mike Masnick’s coverage at Techdirt. ...

Federal Court Kills Patents on Business Methods
Bits — ... and end the era of business method patents. In the ruling, the judges said that a proper test for determining patent eligibility is whether an invention is tied to a particular machine or whether it transforms a physical article. The decision will likely be appealed to the Supreme Court, but the larger question is whether the Supremes will hear Bilski or simply let business method patents die quietly. (There is some good analysis of the decision at Techdirt , ...

Your Business Method Patent Has Just Been Invalidated
TechCrunch — ... Mike Masnick at TechDirt has a good overview of the issues in the case and the stricter rules to be applied to these sorts of patents. He writes: ...

Patent ruling: Good or bad for tech innovation?
Between the Lines — ... . The ruling is widely expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court, something that the appeals court recognized in its opinion. One of the examples used in news coverage of today’s ruling is Amazon’s one-click payment patent - which takes existing technologies of e-commerce and Web links and incorporates them into a new process. Some of the best coverage I’ve seen on this ruling and general topic has been posted by Mike Masnick, who blogs about legal issues for Techdirt. If you’re really ...

Goodbye to Most Business Method & Software Patents
Technology Liberation Front — ... The Federal Circuit significantly limited the patentability of software and business methods today.  Mike Masnick at TechDirt summarizes the holding of the case as follows: ...

Entrepreneurs 1 - Patent Trolls 0
A VC — ... that should serve to render many of these patents useless. I am not a patent lawyer and there is a debate in the comments to this Techdirt post that suggest there's still a lot of debate about how big of a deal this ruling really is. I've emailed my favorite patent lawyer to get his opinion. ...

Business method, software patents limited: Big (bad?) news for tech firms
BloggingStocks — ... As of yesterday, your patent would be denied. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down a ruling in the Ex Parte Bilski case that would severely limit software and business process patents, essentially requiring that these patents only be approved if the patent in question (1) is tied to a particular machine or apparatus, or (2) transforms a particular article into a different state or thing. ...

Re: The (f)utility of Twitter
Ben.geek.nz - Latest Comments — A US Court of Appeals has made a pretty stunning ruling. They've ruled that most software and business method patents are invalid based on basic tests of patentability. - ...

Re: iPhone Google Reader/Gmail/Facebook Cookie Fix
Ben.geek.nz - Latest Comments — A US Court of Appeals has made a pretty stunning ruling. They've ruled that most software and business method patents are invalid based on basic tests of patentability. - ...

Re: Logitech Cordless Desktop MX5000 - now with Review
Ben.geek.nz - Latest Comments — A US Court of Appeals has made a pretty stunning ruling. They've ruled that most software and business method patents are invalid based on basic tests of patentability. - ...

Re: New business cards
Ben.geek.nz - Latest Comments — A US Court of Appeals has made a pretty stunning ruling. They've ruled that most software and business method patents are invalid based on basic tests of patentability. - ...