Supreme Court loosens patent 'obviousness' test

Supreme Court loosens patent 'obviousness' test (CNet)

This ruling seems to be a fairly good and well thought out. I am not completely read up on every detail of the issue but it seems to make it easier to get rid of patents that are so common sense that they just slow down progress. If it is costing people money to use technologies that are so simple and obvious it is bad for technology to have them be patent protected. I was surprised at all of the negative feedback that resulted from this ruling, from many different people. Patent lawyers claimed it would hurt anyone trying to get a patent by making it slower and more expensive. While corporations seem to be just as adamant that this new ruling will only hurt them, especially corporations that are very reliant on their patents. Since I never trust what corporations or lawyers say, I am going to take a wild guess and say this is probably a good move by the Supreme Court. I hope it does what the surpreme court says it will do and helps the growth of technology. The idea itself seems good, changing the definition of common sense to make it more like the actually definition of common sense.