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Carbon Offsets and Patent Protection for Business Methods After In re Bilski
Volume 1, Issue 1
Authors:
Ronald M. Daignault, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Abstract:
As carbon trading enters the mainstream, businesses will seek to devise unique and non-obvious business methods to fend off competitors and enhance their market value. One critical question these companies will encounter is whether their services are eligible for intellectual property protection as business method patents. This article considers how the Federal Circuit’s en banc decision in In re Bilski would answer this question and provides insight into plausible business method patents under the “machine or transformation test.”
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