{"id":43146,"date":"2014-06-19T14:45:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T20:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/19\/reining-in-software-patents.html"},"modified":"2014-06-23T13:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:28:16","slug":"reining-in-software-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/19\/reining-in-software-patents.html","title":{"rendered":"Reining in Software Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"
Definitely good news, as SCOTUS rules you can't take an unpatentable idea, idea, slap on "… on a computer," and patent it. \u00a0Sanest thing to happen in the patent world in a looooong time.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Andreas Schou<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

More on this later, but the TL;DR version is that while the Supreme Court declined to kill software patents altogether, they did<\/i> invalidate all patents which use a computer to implement an otherwise unpatentable concept.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Supreme Court smashes \u201cdo it on a computer\u201d patents in 9-0 opinion<\/a>
\n Court declined to stop software patents altogether. \n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Definitely good news, as SCOTUS rules you can't take an unpatentable idea, idea, slap on "… on a computer," and patent it. \u00a0Sanest thing to happen in the patent world in a looooong time. Reshared post from +Andreas Schou More on this later, but the TL;DR version is that while the Supreme Court declined to … Continue reading “Reining in Software Patents”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,79,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-intellectual-property","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27449,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/patent-impatience.html","url_meta":{"origin":43146,"position":0},"title":"Patent Impatience","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Apr-12 1:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Patents are an important way of encouraging innovation by trying to guarantee some return on intellectual investment: come up with an new, innovative idea, patent it, and your idea is protected for a period of time to let you license it, use it, sell it, whatever.All of which is keen,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26173,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/patently-absurd-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":43146,"position":1},"title":"Patently absurd","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Feb-12 9:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Reading through the actual \"patents\" that Microsoft is claiming here convinces me more than ever that our whole software patent processes is FUBAR. 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