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1. Peter Brown

   Join us for lunchtime drinks to discuss Bilski and the next steps in our campaign http://www.fsf.org/blogs/bilski-party-come-what-may

   Monday, 28-Jun-10 14:09:35 UTC from web
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   • Bradley M. Kuhn Free Software Foundation

     Here it is! #SCOTUS #Bilski opinion. Does it change anything for #swpats? Everyone (!sflc, !fsf, etc) start reading now: http://ur1.ca/0em2c

     Monday, 28-Jun-10 14:46:40 UTC
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   • Fabian Scherschel Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn I am waiting with baited breath for your opinion...

     Monday, 28-Jun-10 14:48:33 UTC
   • Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér Bradley M. Kuhn , Fabian Scherschel

     @fabsh @bkuhn +1 on that.

     Monday, 28-Jun-10 14:49:19 UTC
   • Jan Wildeboer Richard Fontana

     @fontana so what is preferred test?

     Monday, 28-Jun-10 14:52:56 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Fabian Scherschel , Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér

     @fabsh, @mjjzf, I won't have an opinion myself until I hear what Dan Ravicher's opinion is. He's the patent lawyer I talk to for such things

     Monday, 28-Jun-10 14:53:41 UTC
   • Deb Nicholson Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn "This is an unpatentable abstract idea, just like the algorithms at issue in Benson and Flook. " certainly sounds promising. "

     Monday, 28-Jun-10 14:54:17 UTC
   • Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér Bradley M. Kuhn , Fabian Scherschel

     @bkuhn @fabsh So you'll need to talk to your roving and roaming reporter on that. We stay tuned.

     Monday, 28-Jun-10 14:54:36 UTC
   • Deb Nicholson Jan Wildeboer

     @jwildeboer It seems like they aren't suggesting a better test, just saying that "machine or transformation" is too narrow.

     Monday, 28-Jun-10 14:58:41 UTC
   • Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier

     It's too bad they don't teach lawyers / judges inverted pyramid style.

     Monday, 28-Jun-10 14:59:37 UTC
   • Deb Nicholson Jan Wildeboer

     @jwildeboer Which is bolstered by a bunch of Clintonian opining on the meaning of the word "process"

     Monday, 28-Jun-10 14:59:54 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn

     Though [machine/transformation] test… is important clue… is not sole test deciding whether invention is patent-eligible "process" ☹ #Bilski

     Monday, 28-Jun-10 15:02:47 UTC
   • Dave Neary Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn "In choosing such expansive terms [...] Congress plainly contemplated that the patent laws would be given wide scope."

     Monday, 28-Jun-10 15:24:15 UTC
   • Danny Piccirillo GNU's Not Unix , Free Software Foundation , LibrePlanet

     !lp !gnu @peterb, I also just brought in a cotton candy machine! The !FSF office keeps getting better

     Monday, 28-Jun-10 15:41:45 UTC
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