Since State Street, Congress and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have been working to determine how best to handle business method patent applications. A recently introduced bill seeks to impose ...

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Canada’s Federal Court last week overturned a rejection of Amazon’s one-click patent application, characterising the commissioner of patents’ analysis as being “far outside [her] jurisdiction” The ...

The United States Patent & Trademark Office (“PTO”) recently issued its first decision under the transitional program for covered business method (“CBM”) patents—a creation of the Leahy-Smith America ...

The prevailing wisdom for some years has been that, generally, the US permits the patenting of business methods and that the EPO does not. In fact, this view has not been correct for some time now.