Urgent: Patent Reform Now!
October 26th, 2007 by Maddog
A recent string of court rulings in the U.S. dealing with patents may be
the beginning of much-needed reform in the U.S. patent regime. Kirk Teska,
in "How High Is the Patent Bar Now?", described the situation:
This spring, the U.S. Supreme Court made it harder to patent
things by raising a standard known as "obviousness" A lot of
people had figured that this bar had fallen so low you could
practically step over it. Now some people are talking as if
there's no longer any point in getting a patent -- but that's
going too far. Still, some existing patents probably will
fall by the wayside.
The standard of "obviousness" is now harder to meet because of the April
20, 2007 decision. A claimed innovation consisting of a combination of
known components functioning as they were designed, is an "ordinary"
innovation, which any knowledgeable person in the field of the claimed
innovation could have easily foreseen. it is too obvious and not subject
to patent.
Read the entire article:
http://www.infoweapons.com/blog/?p=78
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