The Supreme Court Keeps Business-Method Patents Alive

The Supreme Court, as expected, dealt the final blow to Pittsburgh inventor Rand Warsaw's dream of patenting a method for hedging energy costs against changes in the weather. In doing so, however, the court didn't upset the foundations of the multibillion-dollar world of "business method patents," which are based less on a particular machine than a process for achieving some practical end.

It was an anticlimactic end to a case whose decision was so long delayed that some speculated the justices were deadlocked over how far to rein in what some see as an out-of-control patent process. Instead, the court rejected a narrow test that would require patents to involve a machine or transformation of matter and merely said patents can't cover an abstract idea.

SC allows Reddy brothers to resume mining in Bellary

The Supreme Court Monday gave consent for Reddy my brothers in the disputed areas, but believes there should be no more than 150 meters from the Karnataka border.

Janardhan Reddy and his brother Karuna Kara Reddy, both ministers in Karnataka administration is facing accusation of illegal extraction of iron ore to intervene on a large piece of wood in the area causing major injure to the surroundings.

Make Tamil the language of High Court: Karunanidhi‎

Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Sunday called on the Supreme Court and Madras High Court to take steps to Tamil in the High Court.

"Tamil should also come to the Supreme Court. The Tamil language should Madras High Court and all judges should strive to achieve this," he said to the High Court to reveal the statue of BR Ambedkar.

Chief Minister's remarks came after a Supreme Court judge Justice P. Sathasivam, the Supreme Court of Madras High Court HL Gokhale and Justice FM Ibrahim Kalifulla deals with the composition of Tamil. Justice Gokhale made introductory remarks in Tamil.