By Kevin E. Noonan — The faintest glimmer of hope crept over the clouded patent law horizon today, when the Solicitor General provided the government’s views to the Supreme Court in an amicus brief in American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc., Petitioner v. Neapco Holdings LLC. A simple synopsis is provided in the first sentences of the Discussion section of the brief: "The court of appeals held that claim 22 of the ‘911 patent, which claims a method of manufacturing automobile driveshafts that uses specific mechanical structures and calibrates particular physical properties, is patent-ineligible under Section 101. That holding is incorrect."…
