by sthu11182 on 3/31/14, 11:27 PM with 1 comments
by sthu11182 on 3/31/14, 11:43 PM
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: How about email and just word processing programs?
MR. PERRY: At a point in time in the past, I think both of those would have been technological advances that were patentable. . . . Because they would have provided a technological solution to a then unmet problem. Today, reciting, and do it on a word processor is no different than and do it on a typewriter or and do it on a calculator.
The inventive contribution component, which uses specifically the language of conventional and routine and well understood, will evolve with technology. That’s why it’s different than the abstract idea component.