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Supremes wrestle with business method, software patents
For the first time in a generation, the nation’s highest court on Monday pondered the question of which inventions are eligible for patent protection. For the petitioner, Bernard Bilski, the issue was whether he’d get a patent on “a method for managing the consumption risk costs of a commodity sold by a commodity provider.” The exchange gave him little reason for optimism. For the rest of us, the crucial question is what rule will be applied for patent eligibility in the future.
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A woman in Tennessee has been jailed for infringing a “protection” order after she ‘poked’ someone on Fa$ebook, the advertising site. Shannon D. Jackson (right), 36, “used the ‘poke’ option on Facebook to contact another Hendersonville woman she had been ordered to stay away from,” says the Tennessean , going on: “That violated the terms of an order of protection which stipulates “no telephoning, contacting or otherwise communicating with the petitioner,” according to police.
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