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Case law in the USA

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The following are court rulings which touch the issue of patenting software ideas.

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

Gottschalk v. Benson, 1972

Parker v Flook, 1978

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)

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