Word: courting
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...just foreclosing patenting in a whole area," says Duffy. Instead, he thinks the court should strengthen rules for what makes an innovation nonobvious. And it could have an effect on a number of industries. More than 70 supporting briefs were filed in this case - including some by tech majors, financial firms and drugmakers - indicating the kind of repercussions this ruling could have on business...
...Supreme Court is expected to announce its decision sometime in the spring of 2010. Till then, the machine-or-transformation test is the law of the land and the patent office is rejecting applications based on the test...
...with most Supreme Court decisions, experts are having a tough time predicting what the Justices will write in their opinion...
...biggest fear for technology companies is that the court might impose a block on an entire class of patents - in this case patents dealing with business methods...
Members of the team acknowledged that there was work to be done on both sides of the court...