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: Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates

Software Patents After Bilski

By Philip Brooks

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Managing IP, in association with Lexis Nexis, will host a free web seminar on April 2 at 11 am EST, examining the questions posed by the October 2008 US Federal Circuit decision in In re Bilski.

The webcast participants will include Duane R. Valz of Yahoo!, Eric E. Bensen of Hofstra University School of Law and David Heckadon of Gordon & Rees. The panelists will dissect what the new test means for the software industry, via in-depth analysis of some of the first USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences decisions to apply Bilski. They will also provide their assessments of the state of software patentability six months after the decision and consider alternative methods of protecting software.

Full post as published by Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).

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