Drilling into the core of patent eligibility, a federal appeals court on Thursday issued a rare full-court opinion that restricts the patent protection of business methods.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled 9-3 that methods or processes cannot be patented unless they are tied to a machine or involve a physical transformation. Lawyers closely watching the case, In re Bilski , say the opinion brings the Federal Circuit more in tune with the tenor of recent Supreme Court precedent, which has sided against patent owners.
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