Z:gnu-www-ja-danger-of-software-patents--d3054b-Patent Offices will generally/en

Patent Offices will generally try to twist the law into allowing more patents. In the US software patents were created by a court decision in 1982, in the Appeals Court that deals with all patent cases, which misunderstood a Supreme Court decision from the previous year, and misapplied it. Now it looks like that Appeals Court has finally changed its mind, and it's come to the conclusion that it was mistaken all along; and it looks like this decision will get rid of all software patents, unless the Supreme Court reverses it. The Supreme Court is now considering it, and within less than a year we should find out whether we've won or lost.