NEWS

New Breed of Patent Claim Bedevils Product Makers - Sept. 1, 2010, The Wall Street Journal

Paul Allen's Company Files Broad Lawsuit Over Patents - Aug. 28, 2010, The New York Times

 

Indonesia is Asia Copyright Pirate Center: Survey - Aug. 25, 2010, AFP

Welcome to NewEconomyPatents.org!

This site is a dedicated forum for the advocacy of an open and technology-neutral United States patent system.

Ever since the Founding Fathers wrote intellectual property protection into our Constitution, the United States' patent system has fostered U.S. competitiveness.  A limitation on human ingenuity threatens the future of U.S. innovation and its competitiveness in the global economy, particularly at a time when our economy is most dependent on services and information.

Most recently, NewEconomyPatents.org focused on the patentability of business processes that was central to the Bilski case, which the United States Supreme Court decided on June 28, 2010. In this landmark ruling about whether processes or methods for organizing or conducting businesses are patentable, the Court rejected the Federal Circuit’s restrictive machine or transformation test, saying it was a useful tool for examining patentability but not the sole and exclusive test. The Court also specifically said that nothing in the US patent laws bars patenting business methods per se. Accenture and Pitney Bowes had filed an amicus brief (see Amicus Curiae Briefs) with the Supreme Court in March 2009, arguing that the machine or transformation test was unduly restrictive, and failed to account for modern innovations.

The site is sponsored by Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. We look forward to continuing the dialogue about the role of intellectual property and innovation.


 

COURT FILINGS

On June 28, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion in Bilski v. Kappos.

May 1, 2009, the U.S. government issued its reponse to the amicus curiae brief, which Accenture and Pitney Bowes Inc. jointly filed on March 3, 2009 with the Supreme Court of the United States in support of the petitioners, Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw, in the Supreme Court's consideration of In re Bilski. On May 8, 2009, the Petitioner, Bilski, filed its reply to the government brief.

On Jan. 28, 2009, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the case In re Bilski. The petition seeks to overturn the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which set forth a test requiring that a patentable  process either be tied to a machine or apparatus or involve a transformation of one thing into something else.

On Oct. 30, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Court reached a 9-3 decision in the case  In re Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw.

On May 8, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments in the case In re Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw. The full text of briefs filed with the court, as well as commentary written by allies of NewEconomyPatents.org about specific briefs, are available on the Court Filings and Amicus Curiae Briefs pages.

WHAT'S NEW

Dispelling The Myths - New York, July 29-30, 2008
Wayne Sobon, founder of New Economy Patents and IP director for Accenture, will deliver a keynote speech addressing the myths (and realities) skewing the current debate over business method patents.
To View Wayne Sobon's Presentation, Click Here 

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