Red Hat addresses Supreme Court on software patents

Posted by HNS on Oct 2, 2009 3:20 PM EDT
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Red Hat has filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court. In the brief, Red Hat explains the practical problems of software patents to software developers.

Red Hat has filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court. In the brief, Red Hat explains the practical problems of software patents to software developers.

The brief, filed in the Bilski case, asks the Supreme Court to adopt the lower court's machine-or-transformation test and to make clear that it excludes software from patentability.

The Bilski case involves the standard for patenting a process. The case concerns a business method patent, but involves many of the same issues as software patents.

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