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Bilski: What It Means, Part 2 -- Listening to the Dissenting Opinions

By Pamela Jones et al.

Let's start here, the official bios of the justices that serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the court that just rendered the ruling in In Re Bilski [PDF]. It will help us to understand their point of view, and that will make us more effective in responding. You'll have to make an effort to look at things from a different angle, since most of us feel so strongly that software patents are a curse on development and innovation. But it's worth it to try, if only so as to formulate arguments that can be effective in trying to help them, and those who think as they do, to realize that there is something new in the patent world, a development model that depends not on closing others out but on collaboration and shared science.

Full post as published by Groklaw on November 05, 2008 (boomark / email).