The Supreme Court has finally issued the long-awaited opinion in the Bilski v Kappos patent infringement case, which many pundits suggested would change the landscape of patent law dramatically, particularly as it applies to software.
The verdict?
The decision can pretty much be summarized as “we’re not happy with the Bilski decision or the patent, but we can’t really come up with anything better so you’re on your own.”
I’ll leave it to wiser folk than me to glean more out of the opinion than that, but seems to me the Supreme Court missed a huge opportunity to clarify the law and restore credibility to the US patent regime.
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