{"id":188424,"date":"2010-09-29T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/29\/well-i-missed-a-major-decision\/"},"modified":"2010-09-29T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T00:39:00","slug":"well-i-missed-a-major-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/29\/well-i-missed-a-major-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, I Missed a Major Decision\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bilski_v._Kappos\">Bilski v. Kappos<\/a>, a business patent case that made it to the Supreme Court was decided 3 months ago.  Basically, Bilski had patented a method of hedging energy based on the weather.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court unanimously invalidated the patent, it was after the unique idea that one should bet on the weather, but <a href=\"http:\/\/thepriorart.typepad.com\/the_prior_art\/2010\/06\/supreme-court-decides-bilski.html\">by a 5-4 majority, they kept the business method patent<\/a>, albeit with a tightening of standards:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>While all nine justices agreed that the \u201cinvention\u201d at issue in the case\u2014a method for hedging weather-related risk in energy trading developed by Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw\u2014was too abstract to merit patent protection, only four signed on to Kennedy\u2019s opinion.<\/p>\n<p>That opinion held that the &#8220;machine-or-transformation&#8221; test for patentability&#8211;created by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in its Bilski decision&#8211;was a &#8220;useful clue&#8221; when gauging a subject\u2019s patentability but shouldn&#8217;t be considered the only applicable test. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that this was generally a loss for patent sanity, though it does make getting a business patent more restrictive, though, unsurprisingly, SCOTUS didn&#8217;t say <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">how much<\/span> more restrictive the standards should be.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=bilski\">earlier posts<\/a> on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bilski v. Kappos, a business patent case that made it to the Supreme Court was decided 3 months ago. Basically, Bilski had patented a method of hedging energy based on the weather. The Supreme Court unanimously invalidated the patent, it was after the unique idea that one should bet on the weather, but by a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1109,972,1191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","category-justice","category-patent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}