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Expect a "Perilous Future for Most Business Method Patents," Saith Judge Marylin Patel

April 6, 2009

Judge Marylin Hall Patel, a federal district judge in the North District of California (San Francisco/Silicon Valley) since 1980 and Chief Judge in the District from 1997 – 2004, is a well known federal judge when it comes to intellectual property matters. For example, Judge Patel decided the Grokster case at the district court level,

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CAFC to Patent Applicant: "Read Our Lips – We Really Don't Like Business Method Patents"

March 14, 2009

In In re Lewis Ferguson, a March 6, 2009 decision from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the applicant sought to patent “a marketing paradigm for bringing products to market.” After the application was denied by the various levels of the Patent Office bureaucracy for lack of patentable subject matter, the applicant appealed.

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