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Thursday May 8

Court weighs whether to restrict 'business method' patents

“A narrow focus on physicality requirements is not well suited to the electronic age”

Is a baseball pitcher's method for throwing a curveball patentable? How about a chiropractor's techniques? A federal appeals court wrestled with those kinds of questions Thursday when it considered placing ... via Boston Globe

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