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− | '''Case law in the USA''' is the collection of rulings handed down by the [[USA patents courts and appeals|courts that deal with patents]] in the [[USA]]. Case law provides the official interpretations of the [[Legislation in the USA|legislation]].
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− | The highest court, the [[US Supreme Court]], has not directly examined the question of the patentability of software ideas, but it has taken decisions on closely related [[patentable subject matter]] in a triplet of cases in the 70s and early 80s ([[Gottschalk v. Benson (1972, USA)|Benson]], [[Parker v. Flook (1978, USA)|Flook]], [[Diamond v. Diehr (1981, USA)|Diehr]]), and in the 2010 [[Bilski v. Kappos]] case.
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− | A lower court, the [[US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit]] (CAFC) has upheld many software patents.
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− | It will take time for case law to be developed around the Bilski decision of 2010. See: [[patentability in the USA after Bilski]].
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− | ==The main cases== | |
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− | Most recent first; cases at the Supreme Court in '''bold*''':
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− | * '''[[Bilski v. Kappos (2010, USA)]]*'''
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− | * [[in re Bilski (2008, USA)]]
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− | * [[KSR v. Teleflex (2007, USA)]]
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− | * [[Microsoft v. AT&T (2006, USA)]]
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− | * [[eBay v. MercExchange (2006, USA)]]
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− | * [[AT&T Corp. v. Excel Communications Inc. (1999, USA)]]
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− | * [[State Street v. Signature Financial Group (1999, USA)]]
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− | * [[In re Lowry (1994, USA)]]
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− | * [[In re Alappat (1994, USA)]]
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− | * '''[[Diamond v. Diehr, 1981]]*'''
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− | * '''[[Parker v. Flook (1978, USA)]]*'''
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− | * '''[[Gottschalk v. Benson (1972, USA)]]*'''
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− | ==Possibly interesting==
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− | * [[Quanta v. LGE (2008, USA)]] (see: [[patent exhaustion]])
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− | * O'Reilly v. Morse, (1853) ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O’Reilly_v._Morse Wikipedia page])
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− | * Graham v. John Deere, (1966) 383 U.S. 1, 6 (1966) ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_v._John_Deere_Co. Wikipedia page])
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− | * Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Metabolite Laboratories, Inc., 548 U.S. 124 (2007)
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− | * [[NTP v. RIM (2000, USA)|NTP v. Research in Motion, Ltd.]], 397 F. Supp. 2d 785 (E.D. Va. 2005)
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− | * Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 1980
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− | * In re Iwahashi, 1990
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− | * Ex parte Yang-Huffman, Appeal 20072130, slip op. at 3 (Bd. Pat. App. & Interf. Oct. 4, 2007)
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− | * Northern Telecom v. Datapoint, 908 F.2d 931, 940-941 (1990)
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− | * Prater & Wei<ref>http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/09/in-defense-of-software-patents-part-2.html</ref>
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− | * "Johnson"<ref>http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/09/in-defense-of-software-patents-part-2.html</ref>
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− | ==Finding USA court documents==
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− | * 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
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− | ==Related pages on {{SITENAME}}==
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− | * [[USA patents courts and appeals]]
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− | * [[Court cases and lawsuits]]
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− | ==External links==
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− | * [http://neuro.law.cornell.edu/supct/search/search.html?query=patent&scope=onlysyllabi Patent rulings by the Supreme Court]
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− | * [http://progfree.org/Links/prep.ai.mit.edu/index.html LPF's page contains links to various Amicus briefs, among other things]
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− | * [http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html Bitlaw.com's History of software patents in the USA]
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− | * [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/congress-weighs-patent-specialization-for-federal-judges.ars Congress weighs patent specialization for federal judges], by [[Timothy B. Lee]], 2009 - discusses a possible change in Judge selection
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− | * http://patentsusa.blogspot.com/ - will have to read it to see if it's interesting
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− | * [http://www.pubpat.org/garrodglossariesreleased.htm Dr. David Garrod's Glossaries of Judicial Claim Constructions Available Free of Charge]
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− | * [http://mises.org/daily/3702 Radical Patent Reform Is ''Not'' on the Way], Stephan Kinsella - looks at cases, mostly which touched the obviousness criterion
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− | * [http://neuro.law.cornell.edu/supct/search/search.html?query=patent Patent Rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court], neuro.law.cornell.edu search engine
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− | * [http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/scitech/volume141/documents/Klemens.pdf The Rise Of The Information Processing Patent], by [[Ben Klemens]]
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− | * Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_States_patent_law Software patents under United States patent law]
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− | * Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_patent_law_cases List of United States patent law cases]
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