The U.S. Supreme Court is wading into a messy debate over when software deserves a patent, an issue that is important to big technology companies such as Microsoft and Google, yet has so far flummoxed the federal judiciary. The high court will hear oral arguments Monday in an appeal brought by Alice Corp., whose patents on a computer program to reduce risk in financial transactions were ruled invalid by lower courts.
The Supreme Court will soon decide the validity of software patents
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