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Revision as of 18:06, 26 February 2009
The following are court rulings which touch the issue of patenting software ideas.
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Unsorted cases
AT&T Corp. v. Excel Communications Inc., 172 F.3d 1352, 135659 (Fed. Cir. 1999)
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)
In re Alappat, 33 F.3d 1526, 1543 (Fed. Cir. 1994)
KSR Int'l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 127 S. Ct. 1727 (2007)
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)
State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc., 149 F.3d 1368, 1374 n. 6 (Fed. Cir. 1999)
O'Reilly v. Morse, 1853
- Wikipedia: O’Reilly v. Morse
Gottschalk v. Benson, 1972
- Full name: Gottschalk v. Benson, 409 U.S. 63 (1972)
- Wikipedia: Gottschalk v. Benson
Parker v Flook, 1978
- Full name: Parker v Flook, 437 U.S. 584 (1978)
- Wikipedia: Parker v. Flook
Diamond v. Diehr, 1981
- Full name: Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175, 192 (1981)
- Wikipedia: Diamond v. Diehr
This ruling is generally seen as increasing the scope for the patenting of software, but it does contain some useful phrases such as "excluded from such patent protection are ... abstract ideas.".
Bilski, 2008
(detailed article: Bilski)