What Constitutes Prior Art for a Business Method Patent?
In 1998, in State Street Bank & Trust v. Signature Financial Group, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision that significantly expanded the patentability of business method patents. Prior to that time, most companies relied on other strategies to protect trade secrets since the U.S. Patent Office generally refused to patent business methods Read more about What Constitutes Prior Art for a Business Method Patent?[…]