In a closely watched case about business method patentability following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found broad software patent claims invalid because they attempt to capture “unpatentable mental processes.”
The Supreme Court in Bilski rejected a business method patent that wasn’t tied to a new machine and didn’t transform anything, but it didn’t rule out method patents, instead stating that it “need not define further what constitutes a patentable process.”
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