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Court Greatly Limits Software And Business Method Patents

This post is a couple of days late. I have been reading about this since it happened during this past week but didn’t get the chance to put something up until now.

Basically, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), what we know as the “the patent court”, ruled that in order for a software or business method process patent is valid it must meet these two requirements:

1. it is tied to a particular machine or apparatus
OR
2. it transforms a particular article into a different state or thing

What does this mean? Basically many of the patents that were granted by the patent office will go out the window (such as Amazon.com’s “One Click” purchasing) so others can use that technology to advance innovation within the industry.