A new decision by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences states that a business method that uses a computer to manage a process is not patentable, when the "transformation" is of legal rights.
To read the full Ex parte Halligan decision, click here.
In addition, BPAI states again that a general purpose computer is not a "machine" for the purposes of bilski.
While it seem evident that the BPAI grows more and more anti-patent, I am not sure bilski really went so far, and it will be interesting to see what happens of this case or a similar case reaches the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
For the time being, we are expecting even more difficult prosecution of software patents in the United
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