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My favorite quote from the Bilski v Kappos SCOTUS oral arguments

By nipper

Most of the other patent blogs have been covering the Supreme Court oral arguments in the Bilski v. Kappos case.  [e.g., Patently-O] My favorite quote from the case comes from Justice Scalia (page 16 of the pdf): You know, you mention that there are all these — these new areas that didn’t exist in the past because of modern business and what-not, but there are also areas that existed in the past that don’t exist today. Let’s take training horses. Don’t you think that — that some people, horse whisperers or others, had some, you know, some insights into the best way to train horses? And that should have been patentable on your theory. It’s a great comment/question (…that “business methods” aren’t necessarily a “new” phenomenon)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on November 10, 2009 (boomark / email).