Summary: News about In Re Bilski, Trident Media Guard, and the recent ruling in Germany regarding Microsoft's FAT patent

● LawPundit Excerpts of and Comments to the ORAL ARGUMENTS in the BILSKI case, which currently awaits decision by the United States Supreme Court (see Bilski page)

This posting provides LawPundit excerpts and comments to the ORAL ARGUMENTS in the BILSKI case, soon to be decided by the United States Supreme Court (we have added the links in the excerpted text). Although much of the patent industry seems to expect the machine-or-transformation standard in Bilski to be overturned, we view the course of oral argument to suggest that the Supreme Court could well affirm the Federal Circuit limitation of patents in Bilski by pointing to the context-defined definition of "process" in the patent law as historically applying to machines and transformative inventions, it being the job of Congress -- if it so desires -- to extend that definition of "process" beyond those bounds -- an extension which, in view of the desperate need for real patent reform, is legislatively in fact not desirable.

● File-Sharers Monitoring The File-Sharing Hunters

Although their activities with Hadopi will be limited to monitoring and gathering evidence against file-sharers, we saw them trying to smother a lone file-sharer with their P2P-spamming technology, for which they have submitted a patent. The screenshot below shows TMG ‘DDoSing’ the BitTorrent user in question.

● Microsoft FAT patent appeal upheld in Germany (more here)