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− | * [[AT&T Corp. v. Excel Communications Inc. | + | * [[AT&T Corp. v. Excel Communications Inc. (1999, USA)]] |
* [[eBay v. MercExchange (2006, USA)]] | * [[eBay v. MercExchange (2006, USA)]] | ||
* [[KSR v. Teleflex (2007, USA)]] | * [[KSR v. Teleflex (2007, USA)]] | ||
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− | * | + | * '''[[Bilski v. Kappos (2010, USA)]]''' (pending) |
==Possibly interesting== | ==Possibly interesting== |
Revision as of 06:06, 14 May 2010
Case law in the USA is the collection of rulings handed down by the courts that deal with patents in the USA.
The highest court, the US Supreme Court, has not examine patentable subject matter since the 1981 case Diamond v. Diehr. This case was interpreted by some as validating software patents, but this position is far from clear. Since then, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has upheld many software patents.
A change occurred in 2008 when the CAFC rejected a business method patent in the case in re Bilski. The test they used, known as the machine-or-transformation test, also narrows or closes the scope for patenting software ideas. The Supreme Court is reviewing this new test in the Bilski v. Kappos case.
Contents
The main cases
(Cases as the Supreme Court in bold)
- Gottschalk v. Benson (1972, USA)
- Parker v. Flook (1978, USA)
- Diamond v. Diehr, 1981
- In re Alappat (1994, USA)
- State Street v. Signature Financial Group (1999, USA)
- AT&T Corp. v. Excel Communications Inc. (1999, USA)
- eBay v. MercExchange (2006, USA)
- KSR v. Teleflex (2007, USA)
- in re Bilski (2008, USA)
- Bilski v. Kappos (2010, USA) (pending)
Possibly interesting
- Wikipedia: O’Reilly v. Morse
- Ex parte Yang-Huffman, Appeal 20072130, slip op. at 3 (Bd. Pat. App. & Interf. Oct. 4, 2007)
- Graham v. John Deere, 383 U.S. 1, 6 (1966)
- Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Metabolite Laboratories, Inc., 548 U.S. 124 (2007)
- NTP v. Research in Motion, Ltd., 397 F. Supp. 2d 785 (E.D. Va. 2005)
- Northern Telecom v. Datapoint, 908 F.2d 931, 940-941 (1990)
Finding USA court documents
- Example, for i4i v. Microsoft: http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-txedce/case_no-6:2007cv00113/case_id-101834/ - not very useful, but it's a start
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- USA patents courts and appeals
- Microsoft v. AT&T (2006, USA)
- In re Lowry
- In re Alappat
- State Street v. Signature Group (1999, USA)
External links
- Patent rulings by the Supreme Court
- LPF's page contains links to various Amicus briefs, among other things
- Bitlaw.com's History of software patents in the USA
- Congress weighs patent specialization for federal judges, by Timothy B. Lee, 2009 - discusses a possible change in Judge selection
- http://patentsusa.blogspot.com/ - will have to read it to see if it's interesting
- Dr. David Garrod's Glossaries of Judicial Claim Constructions Available Free of Charge
- Radical Patent Reform Is Not on the Way, Stephan Kinsella - looks at cases, mostly which touched the obviousness criterion
- Patent Rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court, neuro.law.cornell.edu search engine
- Wikipedia: Software patents under United States patent law
- Wikipedia: List of United States patent law cases