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Software copyright inspection powers used for first time
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| The Government pledged £5 million of new money to help the existing 4,500
| Trading Standards officers to undertake their new duties.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/12/24/cardiff_standards/
Days ago:
Is it Patentable?
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| Two months ago, in In re Bilski, the Federal Circuit rejected the notion that
| anything that produces a "useful, concrete, and tangible result" is
| potentially patentable. Instead, to be patent-eligible, an idea must be "tied
| to a particular machine or apparatus," or it must "transform a particular
| article into a different state or thing." (To qualify for a patent, it also
| has to meet various other requirements, such as being novel.)
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| As to transformation, the court noted that not just any transformation will
| do. The transformation "must be central to the purpose of the claimed
| process," and the "articles" transformed must either be "physical objects or
| substances" or "representative of physical objects or substances."
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/12/is-it-patentable
The Post-Bilski Era Gets Underway
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| A set of pharmaceutical process patents for 'evaluating and improving the
| safety of immunization schedules' (Classen v. Biogen et al.; see US Patents
| 6,420,139; 6,638,379; 5,728,385; 5,723,283) were held to be invalid due to
| unpatentability. The decision was appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the
| Federal Circuit, but was upheld with a terse citation to In re Bilski (which
| decision we discussed here).
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/20/1811246
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