Supreme Court Rules on Patenting Medical Treatments [Link]
Good overview at In the Pipeline.
It's hard to imagine how disruptive this could have been if this patent was allowed to stand.1 I don't just mean disruptive to a bunch of rich people fleecing a bunch of productive people. I mean disruptive to the process of staying alive. This was a grab to patent the process of saving someone's life.
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Now if only they had an opportunity to do the same for software patents. Oh wait.... While maybe, not as important, software patents still suck. ↩
