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That's not the point of it | 277 comments | Create New Account
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Nah...
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 09 2012 @ 06:33 PM EDT

Then we will all have to become regular corporate lawyers and sue your pants off for everything else besides patents.

You wouldn't like that.

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That's not the point of it
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 09 2012 @ 09:14 PM EDT
> And yes, I realize that would destroy quite a few patents.
> That is, in fact, the very point of it.

The point of it IMO is a bit of public handwaving. Whatever happens
no patents must be detroyed, and business should continue with
minimum disruption. The decision from FC will be carefully worded
so that SCOTUS have nothing to bite on.

Why am I growing weary of these charades?

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Why not just patent the business method of a patent troll?
Authored by: Kilz on Tuesday, October 09 2012 @ 09:36 PM EDT
Why not just patent the business method of a patent troll?
Then when one pops up sue them for violation of the patent.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

That *is* the Supreme Court rule, from Bilski
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 10 2012 @ 04:24 AM EDT
"I think a simple rule that items which are not patentable subject matter
cannot
make an invention novel would be ideal. "

Unfortunately the Federal Circuit isn't listening; the Supreme Court didn't
spell its ruling out in terms 5-year-olds could understand, so the Federal
Circuit decided to ignore it.

The Supreme Court may decide to put the smack down on the Federal Circuit. (For
example, it could establish a rocket docket and reverse all pro-software-patent
rulings without hearings and with prejudice.) If that doesn't happen,
eventually Congress will need to intervene.

If that doesn't happen, well, we're getting into questions of whether our
governmental system is on the verge of collapse due to non-functioning... which
is off-topic.

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