Red Hat failed to achieve the Supreme Court decision it wanted
Red Hat failed to achieve the Supreme Court decision it wanted
Posted Oct 1, 2010 22:43 UTC (Fri) by sepreece (guest, #19270)In reply to: Red Hat failed to achieve the Supreme Court decision it wanted by FlorianMueller
Parent article: Red Hat Responds to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Request for Guidance on Bilski
It is very rare for the Court to rule on an issue that isn't explicitly in front of it. The case didn't require them to rule on software patents, so they didn't. I don't think you can read into their failure to address software patents anything about how they might rule if/when it eventually comes to them.
Of course, there might be analytical elements in the decision itself that would suggest how they would analyze a case explicitly on software patentability