271patent: Bilski Beatdown: Holders of Business Method Patents May Be Holding "Worthless Stock"

Summary:

This court is now presented with the question of whether recitation of "over the Internet" suffices to tie a process claim to a particular machine. There are at least three reasons why it does not. First, the test requires that a claimed process be tied to "a particular machine." . . . The internet is a network of millions of individual machines. Indeed, the internet was initially conceptualized as a network robust enough to withstand the loss of a large number of particular machines . . . The internet continues to exist despite the addition or subtraction of any particular piece of hardware . . . One can touch a computer or a network cable, but one cannot touch "the internet."

271patent: Bilski Beatdown: Holders of Business Method Patents May Be Holding "Worthless Stock"

zoobab 04 Jun 2009 13:35

"This court is now presented with the question of whether recitation of "over the Internet" suffices to tie a process claim to a particular machine. There are at least three reasons why it does not. First, the test requires that a claimed process be tied to "a particular machine." … The internet is a network of millions of individual machines. Indeed, the internet was initially conceptualized as a network robust enough to withstand the loss of a large number of particular machines … The internet continues to exist despite the addition or subtraction of any particular piece of hardware … One can touch a computer or a network cable, but one cannot touch "the internet.""

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