10 Years After State Street Decision That Transformed Patents, Appeals Court May Reverse Field

October 2008

By: Steven J. Henry
Inventors Digest

 

Ten years and thousands of software-related and business-method patent applications later, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was in 2008 revisiting the issues and considering whether to take one or more steps backward, perhaps undoing its 1998 decisions in part or completely.

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