Patenting Business Methods - American and European Patent Law After the State Street Case
The 1998 State Street Bank &&semic Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc. case took American patent law into a new era. A method of doing business is no longer a valid ground for rejection of patent applications, and the words that ''[v]irtually anything is patentable'' echoe in the legal and business societies. By rendering a data processing system configured for
