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Appeals court considers software patents |
February 09, 2013
U.S. companies shouldn’t be able to get patents on abstract ideas when they combine those ideas with a computer process, a lawyer argued in an appeals court Friday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit should invalidate four patents held by electronic marketplace Alice because the process described in the patents can be done in a person’s head or with a paper and pencil, argued Mark Perry, a lawyer representing CLS Bank, which was sued by Alice for infringement.
Alice’s four patents cover a computerized platform for exchanging obligations in foreign currency trading, but Perry argued the idea behind the patents is too basic to be worthy of a patent.
Alice’s patents cover “double-entry ledger keeping,” a skill that any trained accountant has, Perry told the nine judges. “It is abstract, it is simple, it is not complicated,” he added.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2027756/appeals-court-considers-software-patents.html
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