Canada Rejects Business Method Patents 68
"Canadian Patent Appeal Board Rules Against Business Method Patents," says a new post from Michael Geist; Lorien_the_first_one writes "Looks like the US courts could face some peer pressure," and supplies this excerpt: "[T]he panel delivered very strong language rejecting the mere possibility of business method patents under Canadian law. The panel noted that 'since patenting business methods would involve a radical departure from the traditional patent regime, and since the patentability of such methods is a highly contentious matter, clear and unequivocal legislation is required for business methods to be patentable.' ... In applying that analysis to the Amazon.com one-click patent, the panel concluded that 'concepts or rules for the more efficient conduct of online ordering, are methods of doing business. Even if these concepts or rules are novel, ingenious and useful, they are still unpatentable because they are business methods.'"
Oh Canada! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh great... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Canada: more sanity than greed. (Score:5, Funny)
Bring a sweater. A really, really warm sweater.
Re:Canada: more sanity than greed. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not a win yet. (Score:2, Funny)
your right it's not a very sexy issue.... unlike the isotope issue of the chalk river reactors. God it's so hot, the D20 in my blood is boiling!
Re:Good (Score:3, Funny)
Business Method Patents are ridiculous (Score:1, Funny)
How much longer until we see people patenting "Locomotive Methods" ie how they walk.
"Well y'know how white people walk like this, a deep deep deep, and black people walk like this, a doop doop doop? They're both infringing on my patent and owe me a dollar for every step they take."
Prior art? I've been walking that way since I first started walking, thank you very much. My baby pictures will attest to that.