Intellectual Property Law

A Madness to its Method: Cert Petition Filed in Bilski

By Tim Armstrong, Derek Bambauer, and William McGeveran.

In re Bilski set the patent world aflutter when the Federal Circuit held that business methods, as exemplified in Bilski, fail to qualify as patentable subject matter under Section 101 of the Patent Act. Now, there is a cert petition to the Supreme Court to hear Bilski’s appeal. I’m rapidly reading the petition and will post soon (though probably not until after class this afternoon) with my thoughts on the merits. Bilski was a hot topic at the tax patents panel at the AALS. Hat tip: Sam Murumba.

Full post as published by Info/Law on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).