Unpatentable subject matter
A pair of Federal Circuit opinions last week rejected patents involving patent-ineligible subject matter.
What does that include, you ask?
As Blawgletter noted last year in "You Still Can't Patent Ideas":
Section 101 of the Patent Act allows patents on "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of
Another patent just failed the Supreme Court's airy test for unpatentable "abstract ideas".
A whiter shade of pale
Patents that define ways to make money through commerce on the Internet never have gotten much respect.
In the last year, a series of rulings by the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court bled much of the remaining color out of the "business
Broad patents
You could get really rich if you had a patent on something like "a device that can make and receive wireless phone calls". That would cover every wireless phone, dumb and smart, that ever existed. It would include the satchel phone that Blawgletter's friend Darrell Gest carried around in his ratty pickup back