The Death of Nearly All Software Patents?

+—————————– —————————————+ | The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??| | ?? from the we-can-only-hope dept. ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??| | ?? posted by kdawson on Thursday July 24, @11:25 (Patents) ?? ?? ?? ?? ??| | ?? http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/24/1458215 | +——————————————————————–+ An anonymous reader writes “The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will [0]invalidate many and perhaps most software patents, including pioneering patent claims to such innovators as Google, Inc. In a series of cases including [1]In re [2]Nuijten, [3]In re Comiskey and [4]In re Bilski, the Patent and Trademark Office has argued in favor of imposing new restrictions on the scope of patentable... [read full story]