The Student Intellectual Property Law Association at Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s Auburn Hills campus recently presented a program on “Patent Eligibility, Bilski, and the Future of Business Method Patents.” Taking part in the program were Cooley Professor David C. Berry, Oakland University School of Engineering and Computer Science Professor Gautam Singh, Matthew Binkowski of Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC, and Michael Reid, president of the Student Intellectual Property Law Association. The panelists took a look at the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bilski v Kappos concerning the patentability of methods for hedging risk in commodity markets. Although the court ruled that the claimed invention was not eligible for patenting, because is was merely and “abstract idea,” the court left undecided the exact test to be applied in future cases.
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