Business cases on the U.S. Supreme Court docket
October 05, 2009 03:45 PM Filed in: Supreme
Court of the United States
Yesterday's New York Times includes a nice summary of
business cases that are on the U.S. Supreme Court's
docket this term (click here). "The case that has most
transfixed the business community is Bilski
v. Doll, No. 08-964, a patent dispute that
addresses the consequential question of whether
intangible business methods may be patented. A
federal appeals court last year rejected Bernard
L. Bilski’s attempt to patent a method of
hedging risks in commodities trading, ruling
that only processes tied to a particular machine
or capable of transforming an object into
something different can be patented. . . . A
broad ruling could affect many aspects of the
economy, notably computer software."
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