The Supreme Court has issued its long awaited opinion in Bilski v. Kappos. Read it here. The Supreme Court essentially affirmed the Federal Circuit’s decision which is summarized here.
via Patently-O and Filewrapper.
The claim and continuation rules that were supposed to go into effect on November 1, 2007 are dying a slow death… thankfully.
via Law.com - PTO Rescinds Controversial Patent Rules.
Method claim 1 does not recite any machine or apparatus or call for transforming an article into a different state or thing. A domain name is simply a series of characters representing the address of a resource, such as a server, on the World Wide Web.
Links: Ex parte Atkin.
