Cool -- but after reading that I still don't see how it effects already granted patents.
I guess that's why I'm not a lawyer! Kudos to Red Hat for it's help in getting this ruling passed. --Manny On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.itexaminer.com/us-court-throws-out-most-software-patents.aspx > > > Much of the patent portfolio of some of the world's biggest software > companies has become worthless overnight, thanks to a ruling yesterday > by the US patent court. > The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in Washington > DC has decided that in the future, instead of automatically granting a > patent for a business practice, there will be a specific testing > procedure to determine how patentable is that process. > > The decision is a nearly complete reversal of the court's > controversial State Street Bank judgement of 1998, which started the > stampede for patenting business practices. > Randy Lipsitz, a patent specialist at Kramer Levin in New York, said > the ruling is likely to hit certain industries very hard, especially > insurance, banking, accounting, and software. > > Wooohooo! > Chris...... > > -- > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
