Oral Argument of Gottschalk v. Benson

With the briefing to the Supreme Court underway in regard to the Bilski v. Doll (Bilski v. Kappos?) case, I thought it would be of interest to readers to post the oral arguments to the Supreme Court for some relatively recent section 101 cases.  Today’s posting is the oral argument to the Supreme Court from Gottschalk v. Benson [Listen] that took place more than thirty-six years ago on October 16, 1972.

Here is a link to the text of the opinion:[Read]

It is interesting to listen to the Applicant’s policy argument in regard to the patenting of software [Listen] and the government’s reply [Listen] and to reflect on how things have both changed and not changed in the last thirty-six years.

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