Oral Arguments at Supreme Court for Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank(patentlyo.com)

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Oral Arguments at Supreme Court for Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank

http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/03/unpatentable-bilski-benson.html

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Interesting question/answer

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: How about email and just word processing programs?

MR. PERRY: At a point in time in the past, I think both of those would have been technological advances that were patentable. . . . Because they would have provided a technological solution to a then unmet problem. Today, reciting, and do it on a word processor is no different than and do it on a typewriter or and do it on a calculator.

The inventive contribution component, which uses specifically the language of conventional and routine and well understood, will evolve with technology. That’s why it’s different than the abstract idea component.