Sentences with phrase «business method provision»

While fundamental reform may not be in the picture, the Senate has a chance to reintroduce language — for example, expanding the Covered Business Method provision — that would allow individuals and companies to trim down seriously vague patents after they have been issued.

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One may not petition for Covered Business Review within nine months following the issuance of a patent subject to first - inventor - to - file provisions; in situations involving first - to - invent patents, Covered Business Method review may be sought within the first nine months.

In light of its history and purpose, I think it obvious that the 1999 Congress would never have enacted § 273 if it had foreseen that this Court would rely on the provision as a basis for concluding that business methods are patentable.

An earlier version of the bill contained a provision that would let companies challenge suspicious «business method» patents — many of which cover basic software practices — at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but a powerful lobby of old - guard firms (notably Microsoft (s msft) and IBM (s ibm)-RRB- lobbied to crush that part of the law.

The new legislation makes the covered business method patent provision permanent and also expands its language beyond simply financial products or services, applying it essentially to all business method patents — and, thus, to all software patents.

Known as the transitional program for covered business method patents, or Section 18, this provision allows anyone threatened with infringement suits over certain types of patents to petition the PTO to review the patent's grant and scope.

For example, both bills include a provision that would allow banks and other financial institutions to more easily challenge business method patents when those patents are asserted against them in litigation.