Headline isn't wrong
Headline isn't wrong
Posted Jun 19, 2014 19:12 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: Headline is wrong by JoeBuck
Parent article: US Supreme Court rules against software patents
It didn't rule against *all* software patents, but it's not wrong to say it ruled against software patents.
Some (and seemingly plenty of) software patent have definitely been struck down by this ruling.
Your reading is at the other end, the narrowest interpretation.
Check out footnote 3. It guts the bit of the Diamond v. Diehr ruling which the pro-patent camp always used (you have to take the computer and the software "as a whole" - but this ruling says that "as a whole" means read all the claims together, not the components of the invention).