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Microsoft v. ATT and IP Law professors

03 05 07 - 09:43 Patently O - has an extensive commentary on the arguments presented by the parties and the amici in Microsoft v. ATT. One interesting set of arguments is contained in...

A brief by a group of Intellectual Property law professors pointing out that: "We do not believe the Federal Circuit erred in holding that software code, like any other product, can be a component of a patented invention. Any attempt to draw an artificial line between software and other types of inventions finds no support in the statute, which merely speaks of components of a patented invention..." I agree.

Of course, the Supreme Court disagreed - notwithstanding Footnote 14 - and drew an arbitrary line at the point of "abstract software."

The IP Law professors provided the Court with a better path - than the one chosen - out of the minefield of difficult implications for resolving the AT&T claim against Microsoft; namely, the professors opined that: "The Federal Circuit erred in extending section 271(f)(1) back through the supply chain so as to impose liability for the export from the United States of a template used to create something overseas."

This is a sound point and seems more persuasive than a strained textual analysis of the word "component" or the word "combined." You might say it is a policy argument, but it seems to me to be a sound legal argument concerning a limit on the length of the chain of liability in section 271(f).
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» Software Patents Does Microsoft v. ATT raise analogic implications for software patents? I say yes. And, consider the USPTO's instruction concerning subject matter patents.

"Similarly, computer programs claimed as computer listings per se, i.e., the descriptions or expressions of the programs, are not physical "things." They are neither computer components nor
statutory processes, as they are not "acts" being performed. Such claimed computer programs do not define any structural and functional interrelationships between the computer program and other claimed elements of a computer which permit the computer program's functionality to be realized. Accordingly, it is important to distinguish claims that define descriptive material per se from claims that define statutory inventions."

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