Re: Software Patents

[Lee Hollaar]

In article <nm9d4zr3jgf.fsf@grumpy-fuzzball.mit.edu> Bruce Lewis 
<brlewis@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>rjack <rjack@com> writes:
>
>> This was an open invitation by the Supreme Court directed to Congress
>> requesting that Congress simply do its job --- *LEGISLATE*.
>
>Yes, but if Congress declines this invitation, then one should assume
>that the Supreme Court's opinion that software is not patentable is
>good-enough law.

The Supreme Court *never* said that.  Even in _Benson_, the Court said:
    It is said that the decision precludes a patent for any program
    servicing a computer. We do not so hold.
409 U.S. at 71.