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Re:New Patent Law Actually Makes Life Harder For Startups by anigbrowl on Monday September 19, 2011 @07:50PM (#3015684)
The Supreme Court tried, and were overruled by a lower court.

what

The US legal system is baffling.

I can see why you'd think that. Could you try referencing which case you think involved a lower court overruling the Supreme court (like find a news story that mentions it or something)? That way someone might be able to clear up the misconception for you. I agree that civil procedure and matters of precedent can be very confusing, but I promise you the lower courts aren't going about overruling the Supreme Court, much as they might like to.

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Re:New Patent Law Actually Makes Life Harder For Startups by brlewis on Monday September 19, 2011 @11:37PM (#3016171)
I promise you that if the legal reasoning in "In re. Alappat" and "State Street" were applied to Benson and Flook, those cases would have been decided the opposite way. The legal precedent in those Supreme Court cases was overruled by the Fed Circuit.
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