FSF says: USPTO should publish guidelines excluding software patents

“The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is advising the software
community in the United States to write to the United States Patent
and Trademark Office (USPTO) and ask that software patents be
excluded from upcoming guidance about patent eligibility.

“Following the Supreme Court’s recent decision in *Bilski v.
Kappos*, the USPTO plans to release new guidance about which patent
applications will be accepted, and which will not. As part of this
process, they are seeking input from the public about how that
guidance should be structured. The FSF is taking this opportunity
to call on the USPTO to exclude software patents from eligibility,
and encouraging others in the field to do the same.”

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