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The Supreme Court first upheld a software patent in 1981, involving software controlling a process for curing rubber, and since then patents have become a vital bulwark protecting the assets of big companies like IBM and Microsoft.
FORBES: The Supreme Court Keeps Business-Method Patents Alive
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But Democrats offset these gains by controlling the redistricting process in Illinois and Maryland and, by gaming supposedly nonpartisan redistricting commissions in California and Arizona.
WSJ: Michael Barone: The Meaning Inside the Political Numbers
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The details of the process used to create NanOss are currently a commercial secret (they involve dissolving together the right proportions of calcium, phosphate and hydroxide ions, while precisely controlling the acidity, temperature and timing of the process).
ECONOMIST: Nanotechnology