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In Re Bilski - Transcript of Today's Oral Argument at the US Supreme Court - Updated 3Xs

By Pamela Jones et al.

I know you are dying to know what happened today in oral argument in In Re Bilski before the US Supreme Court. Here is the transcript [PDF] so you can read it for yourself and not have to depend on me or any journalist.

For sure the questions from the court to Bilski's attorney, J. Michael Jakes, and to the attorney for the government, Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm L. Stewart, are interesting. I conclude that the justices are way ahead of them on just how crazy the current patent system has become. Thank heaven there were so many amicus briefs, because reasonable, logical arguments were few and far between from either attorney, in my view, in that they each seemed to argue very much for the status quo, or in the case of Bilski's lawyer for an even broader free-for-all in patentability.

Full post as published by Groklaw on November 09, 2009 (boomark / email).