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Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods. Amazon, com received one for
Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods. Amazon, com received one for
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2016-01-10
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Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods. Amazon, com received one for its" one-click" online payment system. Merrill Lynch got legal protection for an asset allocation strategy. One inventor patented a technique for lifting a box.
Now the nation’s top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago. In a move that has intellectual-property lawyers abuzz the U. S. court of Appeals for the federal circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad review of business-method patents. In re Bilski,as the case is known ,is"a very big deal" ,says Dennis D. Crouch of the University of Missouri School of law. It" has the potential to eliminate an entire class of patents."
Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets. That ruling produced an explosion in business-method patent filings, initially by emerging internet companies trying to stake out exclusive rights to specific types of online transactions. Later, move established companies raced to add such patents to their files,if only as a defensive move against rivals that might beat them to the punch. In 2005,IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them. Similarly, some Wall Street investment films armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.
The Bilski case involves a claimed patent on a method for hedging risk in the energy market. The Federal circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is whether it should "reconsider" its state street Bank ruling.
The Federal Circuit’s action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the supreme Court that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders. Last April, for example the justices signaled that too many patents were being upheld for" inventions" that are obvious. The judges on the Federal circuit are"reacting to the anti-patent trend at the Supreme Court" , says Harold C. Wegner,a patent attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
We learn from the last two paragraphs that business-method patents______.
选项
A、are immune to legal challenges
B、are often unnecessarily issued
C、lower the esteem for patent holders
D、increase the incidence of risks
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。由文章中“联邦审判要求这个案子由12名法官审,而不是普通的3人小组,并且要求判断是否要重新考虑之前的Bank ruling”,可以排除A;in the wake of相当于after,作者意思为:最高法院已经减少了对专利持有者的保护(protection),而选项C的意思是减少了对专利持有者的尊重(esteem),其中esteem是对protection的偷梁换柱;选项D在文中没有提及;最后一段中too many(被授予过多的专利),表明法院认为很多business—method不应该被授予,选项B中often unnecessarily相当于too many,因此B为正确选项。
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