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Intellectual Property Law

University of Missouri School of Law

2015

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The History And Future Of E-Commerce Patents, Dennis D. Crouch, Mitchell L. Terry May 2015

The History And Future Of E-Commerce Patents, Dennis D. Crouch, Mitchell L. Terry

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The past two decades have seen a great rise in the patenting of e-commerce inventions. Now, those same patents are taking an equally great fall. In a series of four recent cases, the U.S. Supreme Court has shifted the doctrine of patent eligibility and, in the process, raised the bar for e-commerce and software patents - making it more difficult to obtain and enforce those types of patents.