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Article: U.S. justices take on patent law; U.S. justices review rules on patent grants ; Supreme Court case could redefine whether a process can be protected
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- November 11, 2009
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JOHN SCHWARTZ
International Herald Tribune
11-11-2009
U.S. justices take on patent law; U.S. justices review rules on patent grants ; Supreme Court case could redefine whether a process can be protected
Byline: JOHN SCHWARTZ
Type: News
Some of the justices expressed skepticism about giving protection to abstract business innovations.
U.S. Supreme Court justices have taken up a case that could reshape the realm of what can be patented, and expressed skepticism about giving protection to abstract business innovations.
The case, Bilski and Warsaw v. Kappos, concerned a business method patent that had been denied to Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw, who in 1997 applied for a process that could ...