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 ...

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.

On November 9 2009, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in In re Bilski, a case that will likely impact whether business methods, already patented and to be patented, are eligible for patent ...