The US Supreme Court is currently considering what many thought was already a settled question: whether computer-implemented inventions are eligible for patenting.

The Innovation Act is breathtaking in its scope and complexity – is all this really necessary, just to address “patent trolls”?

The speed with which the US Congress has attempted to address the problem of “patent trolls” belies both the complexity of the problem and the benefit of legislative action.

Today’s software patentability crisis stems from a new “tone” of criticism from the Supreme Court towards its lower court, coupled with a lack of guidance, on the difference between an abstraction and its applications.

High courts wrestle with question of when inventions that rely on software for implementation are really patentable.