Analysis: The "Lorenzo Jones" case emerges (SCOTUS Blog)

hm the patent defender argues, that the previous court took an arbitrary test and rejected the patent on that ground. and that that is not right. ? somehow a substantial argument is escaping me there.

the other party says that this isn't some big case where there shouldn't be any new ruling. it's just about confirming given practice and that the transform-or-machine test for ''processes'' is a valid test which doesnot preclude busniss patents, nor includes them and it is thus safe to use without creating havoc in industry-world.

i find it really weird. both sides say something, the court would love to finish off business patents, but no one wants to come up with a rule on how to exclude business-patents (aka software-patents?) without damaging the valid side of the patent system.

so to me they really seem to talk at cross purposes. but it looks as if that patent would be killed. but why it gets killed is the last open question.