Alice v. CLS Bank: Are US Business-Method and Software Patents Doomed? Part 2

This column is the conclusion to a two-part series on the recent Supreme Court case of Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd v. CLS Bank International and the question of whether patents can be issued on computer-related innovations and, more broadly, on business methods and software. This column describes the Supreme Court's Alice decision, the industry's reaction to the decision, and the apparent consequences for both software and business-method patents.