It has been a long time since my last blog, but a  Supreme Court case from last year referred to as Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank (or Alice for short) has caused me to take blogging up again.  The cartoon below (from http://lawcomics.tumblr.com/) may not mean much to you unless you are a patent geek, but has huge ramifications for software patenting in the United States. I will try to explain what is at issue with the Alice case below.