In 1972, the Supreme Court stated clearly that Congress should address how patent law applies to the new field of software. Gottschalk v. Benson, 409 U.S. 63, 73 (1972). Unfortunately, Congress has ...
Means-plus-function claiming has been disfavored (by and large) since at least 1994 when the Federal Circuit handed down its decision in In re Donaldson, where the Federal Circuit sitting en banc ...