Thursday, January 05, 2006

Business Week takes on patents

Here, I present a link to a Business Week article about the recent history of the “obviousness” test for a patent's validity. It starts out describing a case related to auto parts, but quickly gets into software and “business method” patents, and defensive patenting. The interesting bit is: note which side a particular large proprietary software company falls out on.

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