Supreme Court Takes Up Software Patent Case

The Supreme Court will weigh in on whether and how it is possible to patent software. The Court agreed to hear Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International, a case where a 10-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit could not agree on a test to determine whether a software patent is an abstract idea, which is not patentable, or a “business  method” that  is patentable.