Here's Why Software Patents Are in Peril (Fortune)

Fortune covers a ruling[PDF] by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that invalidatesthree patents asserted against anti-virus companies Symantec and TrendMicro. "The most important part of the decision, which has created astir among the patent bar, is a concurrence by Circuit Judge HaldaneMayer. In striking down a key claim from U.S. Patent 5987610,which claims a monopoly on using anti-virus tools within a phone network,Mayer says it is time to acknowledge that a famous Supreme Court 2014decision known as "Alice" basically ended software patents altogether."