[Ecommerce] Re: [Upd-discuss] SCOTUS Overrules Rigid US Appeals Court Approach to Patentability of Combinations of Existing Elements

[michael.davis@law.csuohio.edu]

The same applies to software copyright--and even moreso, since it violates
the most basic principle of copyright: that nothing functional be covered
by copyright, since functionality belongs, if anywhere, in the patent
system.


> This decision may reduce the number of bad software patents
> (if it results in a real change in the conduct of the patent system),
> but it will not make software development safe.
> That requires eliminating patents from the software field.
>
> (There are two kinds of bad software patents:
> those that are obvious, and those that are unobvious.)
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