andyKucharski's Journal: High Court Puts Limits on Patents

The Most Frequently emaied article from the NYT : The Supreme Court, in its most important patent ruling in years, on Monday raised the bar for obtaining patents on new products that combine elements of pre-existing inventions. If the combination results from nothing more than "ordinary innovation" and "does no more than yield predictable results," the court said in a unanimous opinion, it is not entitled to the exclusive rights that patent protection conveys. "Were it otherwise," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote in the opinion, "patents might stifle, rather than promote, the progress of useful arts." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/business/01bizcourt.html?em&ex=1178251200&en=0ca402044bdd2858&ei=5087%0A