Prospects re Business Process Patents in Financial Services

Broox Peterson writes on his Payments Industry Regulation blog about the recent United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision in the Bilski case that "snugged up the standards for patent eligibility of business processes and methods that had been loosened by its 1998 decision in State Street Bank & Trust vs. Signature Financial Corp." Broox notes: "The ultimate impact of In re: Bilski on the future of patents in the financial and payments industries is not clear yet, but it is important that the decision did not reject the patentability of business processes or software altogether."