Ben Davidson quoted by Daily Journal on significance of Supreme Court rulings in software patent litigation. (Los Angeles Daily Journal December 29, 2014) “In the dot-com era, people were patenting all of these business ideas,” said Davidson…. “They didn’t re-invent the Internet, they applied the Internet to an abstract idea from the brick-and-mortar era.”

(Originally published in Los Angeles Daily Journal 12/29/2014) On Jan. 9, the U.S. Supreme Court invited the views of the solicitor general on whether to hear the Oracle v. Google copyright litigation relating to the Android operating system. At issue is whether Oracle can protect through copyright the command structure for its Java Application Programming…