RPX Corporation is a new start-up company that is attempting to pull together resources to acquire patents in an ill-defined attempt to thwart patent trolls.  It seems that RPX wants to build a defensive portfolio of patents, but this is not calculated to prevent patent trolls from doing anything that could potentially be useful.  If [...]

As many of you undoubtedly already know, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided two weeks ago that software should be patentable if and only if it is tied to a machine. The case, In re Bilski, asked the Federal Circuit to determine if a purely mental business method was patentable, [...]