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Re:Supreme Court rules on software patent case Alice Corp v.... by PolemicThoughts on Thursday June 19, 2014 @10:47AM (#7916337)
“Simply appending conventional steps, specified at a high level of generality,” to a method already “well known in the art” is not “enough” to supply the “ ‘inventive concept’ ” needed to make this transformation [into a patent-eligible invention].

How does this differ from/alter existing law? Is this ruling just a clarification?

Re:Supreme Court rules on software patent case Alice Corp v.... by smackfu on Thursday June 19, 2014 @11:09AM (#7916476)
In the federal court decision, there were dissents about how to decide that the patent was invalid, although everyone agreed it was invalid. The details are over my head.