Prominent Pro-Patent Judge Issues Opinion Declaring All Software Patents Bad

Posted by BernardSwiss on Oct 7, 2016 2:16 AM EDT
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Well here's an unexpected surprise. A lawsuit brought by the world's largest patent troll, Intellectual Ventures, and handled on appeal (as are all patent cases), by the notoriously awful Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) may have actually killed off software patents. Really. ... But the part that has everyone chattering is the concurring opinion by Judge Haldane Mayer, that says it's time to face facts: Alice killed software patents. And Mayer is not some newcomer.

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The end of the beginning........ Ridcully 2 2,059 Oct 7, 2016 1:25 PM

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