CAFC Judge Mayer: “Alice sounded the death knell for software patents”

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CAFC Judge Mayer: “Alice sounded the death knell for software patents”

In a controversial concurring opinion in a Federal Circuit decision finding claims of three Intellectual Ventures patents invalid, Judge Haldane Mayer argues: “It is well past time to return software to its historical dwelling place in the domain of copyright.”

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