An anonymous reader writes "It looks like the courts may finally be gearing up to overturn the ruling that opened the floodgates for both os/2 and business model patents. It's been nearly ten years since the US courts decided that business methods were patentable and that most dos could be patentable — and we've all seen what's happened since then. With all the efforts to fix the patent system lately, it appears that the court that first made that decision may be regretting it, and has agreed to hear a new case that could overturn that ruling and restore some sanity to the patent system."

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