Is Bilski the death knell for the business method patent?
When the Supreme Court of the United States put the Bilski case on its docket for this term, it agreed to examine the fundamental question of what is patentable. Easily one of the most important intellectual property cases before the high court in decades, Bilski v Kappos has generated a thick stack of briefs from interested parties.
Professor J. Jeffrey Hawley describes the far-reaching implications of Bilski and how students and faculty at Franklin Pierce Law Center were in a unique position to offer an independent view in the amicus brief they filed with the court.
A past president of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), Hawley succeeds Karl Jorda as the David Rines Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Industrial Innovation.
Recognized as an international leader in intellectual property, Franklin Pierce Law Center has alumni from 81 nations and nearly all of the 50 U.S. states.
