Eff: Patent ruling hurts open-source software

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 24, 2006 3:06 AM EDT
Computerworld; By Grant Gross
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a patent ruling, saying the way a lower court views patentable inventions could hurt free and open-source software projects. The EFF filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to shoot down the so-called "suggestion test," a method the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has used to determine whether an invention should be obvious to others, and therefore, not patentable.

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