Brian Kahin: At the Heart of the Knowledge Economy: Should Patents Be Limited To Technology?
May 6, 2008 - Forget the inter-sector warfare over patent reform that is presently stalled in the Senate. Today a bigger battle is underway in court over where to draw the line between patentable ideas and abstract ideas. The case, In re Bilski, is being heard by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the arbiter of all things patent - or so it was before the Supreme Court recently started to take an…