[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Software is once again unpatentable in the United States

2008-11-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Valent Turkovic wrote: Quote from http://www.pli.edu/patentcenter/blog.asp?view=plink&id=368 : Here are the highlights: * The Federal Circuit rejected the that the "useful, concrete and tangible result" inquiry as being inadequate. * Patentability under 101 does not depend on proce

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Software is once again unpatentable in the United States

2008-11-04 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Jon Ciesla wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: Also from http://ben.klemens.org/blog/arch/0009.htm: Despite claiming that all that matters is the machine-or-transformation test, the ruling also bears in mind many other necessary conditions for patentability, such as the rule that a patent may not