How A Pro-Software Patent Bill Could Affect The Medtech Industry

10 Jan 2020

Though it didn’t even get to committee, a bill to make it easier for tech companies to patent software – including medical software – has a good chance of getting passed in Congress this year, bill proponents and legal experts say.

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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,...