Bilski Oral Arguments
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow (Monday) in the Bilski case. Many amicus briefs have been filed in the case, including briefs from Accenture, AIPLA, Borland Software, the Free Software Foundation, Intellectual Property Owners Association, IBM, Microsoft, and Red Hat.
Although the Bilski case is mostly about business methods (e.g., risk hedging), many have turned the case into a question of whether software is patentable. I have my doubts that there are sufficient facts on the record in the Bilski case for the Supreme Court to opine on that particular issue (even the Federal Circuit deferred the issue as footnoted in their Bilski decision), but I have been surprised before.
