The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide whether business method patents, such as many software patents, are valid. The high court will answer two questions: (1) whether the Federal Circuit erred in its holding that a process must be tied to a particular machine or apparatus, or that it must transform a particular article into a different state or thing to be eligible for patent protection (also known as the “Machine or Transformation Test”); and (2) the Court will look at whether or not the Machine or Transformation Test, which effectively denies patent protection to many business methods, contradicts clear Congressional intent.
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Supreme Court to Review Business Method Patents
