Intellectual Property,
U.S. Supreme Court
Nov. 21, 2014
The death of Internet patents
Should patents be used to monopolize abstract ideas of doing business on the Internet using conventional programming techniques? After a four-year appeal process, that question was finally answered "no."
Ben M. Davidson
Founder
Davidson Law Group ALC
Intellectual Property
Email: Ben@dlgla.com
George Washington Univ Law School
Ben is a former patent examiner and represents corporations in intellectual property litigation and proceedings before the U. S. Patent & Trademark Office.
Should patents be used to monopolize abstract ideas of doing business on the Internet using conventional programming techniques? After a four-year appeal process, that question was finally answered "no" by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Nov. 14 in Ultramercial Inc. v. Hulu LLC, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 21633 (Fed. Cir. 2014).
The case involved Los Angeles-based Ultramercial Inc., which had patented a method for letting consumers "pay" for viewing copyrigh...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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