Supreme Court invalidates software patent because it's a software patent

So much for my grand empire to be built on a mash up of patents and Green Eggs and Ham.
I will patent multimedia… in a box, with a fox, on a train, in the rain

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Of course way back when, anything done in software was considered prima facie unpatentable because software was just a set of “mathematical equations.” So to get patents people would create circuit diagrams that would do in hardware the tasks that they were actually doing in software.

The article’s analysis of this being an earth-shattering opinion couldn’t be further from the truth. SCOTUS BLOG has a great take on it: http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/06/symposium-for-patent-litigants-court-affirms-status-quo/

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