Here's Why Software Patents Are in Peril (Fortune)
Here's Why Software Patents Are in Peril (Fortune)
[Announcements] Posted Oct 10, 2016 19:13 UTC (Mon) by ris
Fortune covers a ruling
[PDF] by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that invalidates
three patents asserted against anti-virus companies Symantec and Trend
Micro. "The most important part of the decision, which has created a
stir among the patent bar, is a concurrence by Circuit Judge Haldane
Mayer. In striking down a key claim from U.S. Patent 5987610,
which claims a monopoly on using anti-virus tools within a phone network,
Mayer says it is time to acknowledge that a famous Supreme Court 2014
decision known as “Alice” basically ended software patents altogether.
"