SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may have just closed the door on a lot of vaguely worded software patents.
The court on Wednesday ruled that software patents framed as means-plus-function claims must disclose a corresponding algorithm in the claim specification—in other words, the patents can’t merely claim the function to be achieved.
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