The Trespass Fallacy in the 'Software Patent' Debate

5 Pages Posted: 13 Jun 2014 Last revised: 22 Jun 2014

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Hon. Ryan T. Holte

The University of Akron School of Law; United States Court of Federal Claims

Date Written: 2014

Abstract

In The Trespass Fallacy in Patent Law, Professor Adam Mossoff details how patent law jurisprudence and scholarship is dominated by an indeterminacy critique or “trespass fallacy” in two respects. Professor Mossoff’s essay, however, only briefly mentions the now paramount contemporary issue surrounding the more-focused “software patent” debate. In this short essay, I briefly discuss Professor Mossoff’s trespass fallacy analysis as it relates to “software patents” and the Supreme Court’s October 2013 Term case Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l.

Keywords: Patent Law, Software Patents, Intellectual Property

JEL Classification: K10, K11

Suggested Citation

Holte, Hon. Ryan T. and Holte, Hon. Ryan T., The Trespass Fallacy in the 'Software Patent' Debate (2014). 65 Fla. L. Rev. Forum 46 (2014), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2448973

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