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Finally Some Common Sense: Business Methods Not Patentable

By on October 30, 2008

Reuters reports:

A U.S. patent appeals court ruled on Thursday that business methods, such as Amazon.com Inc’s  one-click to buy goods on the Internet, cannot be patented.

This is great news for innovation.  Why?   I leave the analysis to Techdirt’s supersmart Mike Masnick: Court Greatly Limits Software And Business Method Patents. 

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One response to “Finally Some Common Sense: Business Methods Not Patentable”

  1. Allan
    Allan October 30, 2008 at 4:04 pm |

    It’s better that business methods cannot be patented than if they could be patented. But I don’t like either extreme. I would rather see some nuanced patent policy, but that is much harder than the two extreme alternatives.