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Quote: It doesn’t take a big corporation to obtain patents on innovations in these areas, said Charles Macedo, partner at Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP.
“By challenging whether or not business methods are patentable, it precludes patent laws from having the greatest effect on areas which are most accessible to the common man,” he said. “Patentable subject matter should be broadly construed.”