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Supreme Court Review of Bilski Heats Up
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Supreme Court's review of In Re Bilski (discussed here numerous times) is heating up, having attracted no less than 44 friend-of-the-court briefs from almost everyone with a stake in the patent system. Patently-O provides a nice summary of who is arguing against Bilski. The two questions before the Supreme Court are whether or not a process must satisfy the particular machine or transformation test, and whether this test improperly excludes many business methods in spite of the wording of 35 U.S.C. 273, which specifically allows business-method patents. So far, the case has attracted legal filings from nearly every large company or group whose patents might be threatened. You can read briefs from Yahoo, IBM, Borland, Dolby Labs, the BSA, and many others, even one from some guy claiming to speak on behalf of the State of Oregon."
Better to be a forum troll, than a patent-troll any day of the week.
Yeah, who needs yachts to drive on their oceans of money and naked women when we have strangers getting upset over what we think about Linux distros?
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
Or as my dad says
" Son, there is no point in being a racist. Most folks are total assholes and will happily give you a reason to hate them personally!"
And I have found no truer words were ever spoken.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
WTF is "cohersive"? Did you mean "coercive"?
It's an error, no doubt, but it's an amusing one. It's like a combination of "coercive" and "cohesive". I think we should regard it as cromulent.
Better to be a forum troll, than a patent-troll any day of the week.
Yeah, who needs yachts to drive on their oceans of money and naked women when we have strangers getting upset over what we think about Linux distros?
Don't do that. Besides not being very nice, it's quite the waste because you'll just end up having to buy more naked women to drive over.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Copyright protects Novel ideas. Patents protect the Automatic Author machine that produces Novel ideas.
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine