http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-56335/oss-watch:software-patents:follow-the-leader Posts in the discussion thread "OSS-Watch: Software Patents: Follow The Leader" - Enterprise Linux distributor Red Hat has entered what is called an ‘amicus’ brief in a patent appeal case on the US Federal Circuit. A man named Bernard Bilski had applied for a patent on a method for controlling risk in the energy commodity market. The US Patent and Trademark Office rejected the claim as being ‘directed to non-statutory subject matter’ (pdf link), which means that it attempted to gain patent control over something that is excluded from being patented by law. So what does the US law say about what can and cannot be patented? http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-56335#post-153855 http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-56335/oss-watch:software-patents:follow-the-leader#post-153855 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:57:09 +0000 zoobab 2946 http://involve.jisc.ac.uk/wpmu/oss-watch/2008/04/21/software-patents-follow-the-leader/

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