Courts May Revisit Software Patents

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like the courts may finally be gearing up to overturn the ruling that opened the floodgates for both software and business model patents. It's been nearly ten years since the US courts decided that business methods were patentable and that most software could be patentable — and we've all seen what's happened since then. With all the efforts to fix the patent system lately, it appears that the court that originally made that decision may be regretting it, and has agreed to hear a new case that could overturn that ruling and restore some sanity to the patent system."

Comments

Re:if you can't patent maths

[tambo]

However, a lot of the software patents seem to be based on algorithms, and not a whole lot more.

"Not a whole lot more" than algorithms, eh?

Is that like machines being "not a whole lot more" than some materials and a little physics?

Or chemistry being "not a whole lot more" than acid/base and atomic shell interactions?

Or human intelligence being "not a whole lot more" than interactions of some particularly configured neurons?

- David Stein

Re:sotware patents

[zIRtrON]

Hey PatentMagus,

Go smoke some pot, have a look at the way something in the world works, then conceptualize it and submit a patent. That's what seems to be work.