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Revision as of 03:57, 3 August 2011
- (For the Supreme Court case, see: Bilski v. Kappos (2010, USA))
"in re Bilski" was a 2008 court case in the USA at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC).
Background:
- Bilski's patent was rejected by the USPTO's board of appeal (BPAI), in March 2006: fd022257.pdf
- CAFC hears the case as in re Bilski, and rules that the patent was rightly rejected, October 2008: 07-1130.pdf
- Supreme Court reviews the CAFC ruling and confirms the rejection: Bilski v. Kappos
Contents
Amicus briefs against software patents
Lists of Amicus briefs are available at Groklaw[1] and Patently-O[2].
Full list of amicus briefs
Here is a probably-incomplete list of the briefs submitted, based on the list and commentary by Patently-o,[3] and of finnegan.com.[4]
- Accenture: [5]
- ACLU: [6]
- AIPLA: [7]
- AMEX: [8]
- BIO: [9]
- BPLA: [10]
- Business Software Alliance: [11]
- CCIA: [12]
- CPA: [13]
- Dell & Microsoft: [14]
- EFF (Schultz): [15]
- Eli Lilly: [16]
- End Software Patents: [17]
- End of Software (EOS): [18]
- Financial Services Industry: [19]
- IBM: [20]
- IPO: [21]
- Mr. Aharonian: [22]
- Mr. Morgan: [23]
- Philips: [24]
- Prof Collins: [25]
- Prof Lemley: [26]
- Prof Morris: [27]
- Prof Sarnoff: [28]
- RDC (Duffy): [29]
- Red Hat: [30]
- RMC: [31]
- SAP: [32]
- Software & Information Industry Assn: [33]
- WA IP: [34]
- Yahoo & Prof Merges: [35]
End Software Patents
The brief from End Software Patents focussed on proving real current harm and that the victims are often non-software companies who aren't aware that they're in risk.
- ESP's Amicus brief
- Discussion: Ars Technica
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Analyses of the 2008 ruling
- Groklaw's page of about 10 articles
- Wikipedia: in re Bilski
- The ruling in practice post-Bilski: BPAI: PTO Should Apply Broadest Reasonable Claim Interpretation to Section 101 Analysis
- EFF's Bilski page
- IP Updates blog about "machine or transformation" wording (see also: Particular machine or transformation)
- SFLC's reaction, Oct 30th 2008
- SFLC podcast mentioning Bilski, Nov 25th 2008
- Bilski Not So Bad for Software Patents After All, May 2009
- A BoycottNovell article with links to lots of 2008 coverage of Bilski
Post-Bilski changes in patent situation
The US Patent office began rejecting certain patents based on the Bilski test.[36]
In July 2009 a court rejected a patent based on Bilski.[37]
The USPTO posted new subject matter examination guidelines in August 2009.[1]
Related pages on ESP Wiki
External links
- Ars Technica articles by Timothy B. Lee:
Patently-o coverage
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/04/ex-parte-bilski.html
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/07/the-death-of-go.html
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/10/in-re-bilski.html
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/10/patenting-tax-s.html
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/11/cle-how-to-draf.html
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/11/professor-colli.html
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/03/in-re-ferguson-patentable-subject-matter.html
- http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/08/interim-guidelines-on-statutory-subject-matter.html
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