Nick Baumann |
I cover national politics and civil liberties issues for the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones. I have also written for The Economist, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic, and Commonweal. Email me at nbaumann [at] motherjones [dot] com. |
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Notes How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail“We basically took a look at this situation and said, this is bullshit.”
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Notes"The patent didn’t cover the drugs themselves, nor any particular method for measuring metabolite levels—these were already widely used in the medical profession. Instead, the patent covered the concept that particular metabolite levels “indicate a need” to raise or lower drug dosage."This is completely insane, and the Supreme Court was right to strike it down.
Supreme Court saves medical profession from diagnostic patents
