Courts May Revisit Software Patents

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 18, 2008 @02:50AM from the yeah-that'll-happen dept.

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 With all the efforts to fix the patent system lately, it appears that the court that originally made that decision may be regretting it, and has agreed to hear a new case that could overturn that ruling and restore some sanity to the patent system."

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Re:It'll never happen... by gnasher719 · 2008-02-18 05:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why is software so special that it's the only thing that I know of covered by both copyright and extensive patents? Most things are difficult to copy, software (and books, music etc.) are not difficult to copy. If you wanted to copy your neighbor's Mercedes, how much time and money would that cost you?