!081894 Another Circuit Court decision on software - in re Warmerdam One of the IPNS readers sent in the following question. Anyone have details on this decision, and what it means? >Have you heard much buzz about In Re Warmerdam, Fed. Cir. 8/11/94 93-1294. > >It is a CAFC decision, post-Alappat where, in dicta, at least, a claim to >a machine was stated as claiming patentable subject matter. The odd >thing was that the claim claimed a machine having a memory containing >data representing a data structure generated by a method claim. The >method claim was held not to constitute patentable subject matter, but >the apparatus claim was stated to be patentable subject solely because it >claimed a machine (any machine, including a computer) for storing the >data structure. Greg Aharonian Internet Patent News Service