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Under a strict interpretation of the machine-or-transformation test, this process could be ineligible for a patent. As would hundreds of other patents that have been granted in the past decade...
There is now a school of thought that making it harder to get a patent is a good thing, though there is hardly any agreement on how to go about limiting patents. Doing so by introducing a new classification, the machines-or-transformations test, is a bad thing, says John F. Duffy, a professor at the George Washington Law School and co-author of a brief on behalf of several technology companies. (See the best social-networking applications...
...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...
Deputy Superintendent Carolyn L. Turk said that while in previous years the intensive studies program application required test scores, parent requests, and teacher recommendations, the program is now open to all who are interested...
...Finance Minister Kenyatta (son of Kenya's first President) insists that a tender was run in 2008, though he has yet to produce proof of that process. Kenyatta says that the Passats send a message of frugality and insists the tender was aboveboard. "The purchase passes the test of integrity, transparency, accountability and public confidence as set in the law," he told a parliamentary committee that summoned him to clear up the Passat controversy in early November. He called all criticism "baseless, unfounded and untenable," and the result of "corporate wrangles and lobby interests...