Business Method and Software Patents are clearly patent eligible

Yesterday I posted a link to guidelines promulgated by the USPTO in light of the Alice Corporation Ply. Ltd. v. CLS Bank supreme court case. After further review, I noticed this important statement by the USPTO in those guidelines:

“Notably, Alice Corp. neither creates a per se excluded category of subject matter, such as software or business methods, nor imposes any special requirements for eligibility of software or business methods. ” (emphasis this author’s).

Thus, I think it is clear that there is no longer any question that business methods and software patents are perfectly fine at the USPTO.