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Reaction to Bilski v. Kappos

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- The Supreme Court waited until the eleventh hour to issue its long-awaited decision in Bilski v. Kappos, affirming the Federal Circuit's determination that an application directed to hedging risk in energy commodities was not patent eligible while determining that the Federal Circuit's machine-or-transformation test is not the sole test for assessing patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 (see Patent Docs report on decision). Reaction to the Supreme Court's decision in Bilski has, not surprisingly, come much quicker. In a brief statement posted on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website, the Office noted that: The...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).