SFLC Tells SCOTUS, "Software Patents Are Unjust"

Posted by Tux De Luxe at 09:24 04/10/2009
SFLC Tells SCOTUS, "Software Patents Are Unjust": "H4x0r Jim Duggan writes to inform us that the day after Red Hat advised SCOTUS that software should not be patentable, the Software Freedom Law Center filed its amicus brief in the Bilski case. 'In this closely-watched case, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was correct in restricting patentable processes to those 'tied to a particular machine or apparatus,' or which 'transform[s] a particular article into a different state or thing,' a conclusion which if fully implemented could bring to an end the widespread patenting of computer programs. ... This case gives the Supreme Court a chance to reaffirm what its past cases have held for more than a century: that no patent law consistent with the US Constitution can permit the monopolization of abstract ideas.' Groklaw is running the usual cogent gloss with the full text of the SFLC's brief.

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