[LINK] These look a bit hopeful....

[Michael Lean]

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* Bill to limit business method patents
U.S. Congressmen introduced a bill that would make several changes to
the business method patent process. Such patents would be harder to
obtain, and easier to challenge. One of the important changes is
creating a rebuttable presumption of non-obviousness for an invention
that uses a computer to implement a known business practice. The bill
would also create a new, expeditious, and inexpensive opposition
process.
http://www.techlawjournal.com/intelpro/20001003.asp

* Is hyperlinking patented?
British Telecom's hopes of enforcing its U.S. patent on Internet
hyperlinking may be over, due to old movie clip which includes a prior
demonstration of hyperlinking in 1968, 8 years before BT's patent. Movie
at:
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html

         
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