Draft legislation designed to make it easier for companies to gain patents for medical software is likely to make a comeback in the US Congress this year. Proponents of the bill say it will reverse a trend set by a six-year-old Supreme Court case that virtually made it impossible to get software patents.
In May 2019, Sens. Thom Tillis, R-NC, and Chris Coons, D-DE, as well as Reps. Doug Collins, R-GA, Hank Johnson,...