Link to full articleIn a brief supporting KSR's arguments (click for PDF), Microsoft and Cisco charged that the current test applied by the Federal Circuit "hurts innovation" because it establishes "far too lenient a standard for patentability." Cisco has even built up a portfolio of patents for "defensive purposes" in order to "neutralize" a proliferation of trivial patents, the brief said.
About time!! Now hopefully common sense will prevail and the Supremes will make a rational definition of what constitutes a non obvious patent. Next we need the government to allow the courts to penalize companies (and individuals) who attempt to patent things that are obvious or invented by others.
Topic: U.S. Supreme Court to weigh standards for patent "obviousness" (Read 1131 times)