Case law
Case law is a special subset of court rulings which create precedent and give definitions about how patent law is to be interpreted in the given country. The most important cases define what is and isn't patentable subject matter (i.e. is software patentable or not).
(If you're looking for court cases which were important for other reasons, see List of lawsuits.)
There are many criteria on which a court can rule a patent to be invalid. A court might say the patent wasn't original enough, or wasn't sufficiently innovative. Those court rulings are not very interesting for our goal of excluding software from patentability.
Contents
Case law around the world
- See also: List of lawsuits
Australia
Canada
Israel
United States of America
- Main article: Case law in the USA
Japan
European Union
England and Wales
- Main article: Case law in the UK
Germany
- Main article: Case law in Germany
Netherlands
France
- See: France (various subsections)
ESP Wiki case law articles
Ordered per region, then newest first. (Also: Cat:Court rulings)
Australia: (overview)
Canada: (overview)
EUCJ:
France:
Germany: (overview) (category)
- Motorola Mobility v. Apple ruling by Mannheim Regional Court on 9 December 2011
- Siemens ruling by German BGH on 22 April 2010
- Microsoft FAT ruling by German BGH on 20 April 2010
Japan:
Israel: (overview)
Netherlands:
- Apple ruling by UK Court of Appeal on 3 May 2013
- Halliburton ruling by UK High Court on 5 October 2011
- Gemstar ruling by UK High Court on 27 November 2009
- Symbian ruling by UK Court of Appeal on 8 October 2008
- Aerotel ruling by UK Court of Appeal on 27 October 2006
- Alice v. CLS Bank ruling by US Supreme Court on 19 June 2014
- CLS Bank v. Alice ruling by US CAFC on 8 May 2013
- In re Spansion by US Third Circuit on 21 December 2012
- Mayo ruling by US Supreme Court on 20 March 2012
- Cybersource v. Retail ruling by US CAFC on 16 Aug 2011
- Bilski ruling by US Supreme Court on 9 November 2009
- In re Bilski ruling by US CAFC on 30 October 2008
- Quanta v. LGE ruling by US Supreme Court on 9 June 2008
- KSR v. Teleflex ruling by US Supreme Court on 30 April 2007
- Microsoft v. ATT ruling by US Supreme Court on 30 April 2007
- EBay v. MercExchange ruling by US Supreme Court on 15 May 2006
- ATT v. Excel ruling by US CAFC on 14 April 1999
- State Street ruling by US CAFC on 23 July 1998
- In re Lowry ruling by US CAFC on 26 August 1994
- In re Alappat ruling by US Supreme Court on 29 July 1994
- Diamond v. Diehr ruling by US Supreme Court on 3 March 1981
- Parker v. Flook ruling by US Supreme Court on 22 June 1978
- Gottschalk v. Benson ruling by US Supreme Court on 20 November 1972
