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Re:Abstract software patents struck down by Supreme Court by higherpurpose on Thursday June 19, 2014 @10:46PM (#7919320)
My favorite part about this is that it shows how idiotic USPTO is for approving such patents in the first place. Hopefully, this will make them reconsider whether they should be approving other types of patents, too, before the Supreme Court puts them in a bad light again, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Re:Abstract software patents struck down by Supreme Court by euank on Thursday June 19, 2014 @11:22PM (#7919400)
There are no ramifications for the USPTO.

In addition, approving a patent takes almost no work while not approving one takes significantly longer and can have more bouts of back and forth.

The USPTO right now operates on a very loose definition of 'patentability' simply because it is more convenient to do so and the course will sort it out eventually anyways.. and there's absolutely no downside for them other than their own conscious.

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Re:Abstract software patents struck down by Supreme Court by spacemanmatt on Thursday June 19, 2014 @11:05PM (#7919371)
They do not care.
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Re:Abstract software patents struck down by Supreme Court by moron4hire on Friday June 20, 2014 @06:15AM (#7920145)
They can't care. They don't set policy, Congress does. They just act out Congress' laws.
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