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.
EFS-Web is the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) web-based patent application and document submission system. I have been filing all my documents electronically since the USPTO started beta testing electronic filing (and I am shocked to see that some law firms still do not use electronic filing). All documents filed via EFS-Web must be pdfs with embedded fonts, or image-based pdfs.
May 26, 1981: Programmer-Attorney Wins First U.S. Software Patent
via May 26, 1981: Programmer-Attorney Wins First U.S. Software Patent | This Day In Tech | Wired.com.
Link: U.S. Patent No. 4,270,182.
