Patent Alert: Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Bilski Patent Application but Narrowly Upholds Business Method Patents

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The Bilski case presented the Supreme Court with an opportunity to eliminate business methods from the scope of patentable subject matter. Today, by a single vote, the Court declined to take that step. Even though the specific patent application before the Court was unanimously rejected, the boundaries of patent-eligible inventions remain uncertain.

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