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But not everyone agrees business method patents are doomed.

Method patents are the bane of the corporate world, and business groups say they encourage frivolous lawsuits based on faulty application of patent law.

"Business method patents are generally a joke.

Business method patents are obviously not just the terrain of older companies, nor of trolls hoping to cash in on an existing, active company's fortunes.

"According to the U.S. Patent Office, applications for business method patents are up 700% this year," says David Kline, a business consultant and the author of Rembrandts in the Attic.

Business method patents are used to describe certain processes, often found in software; the problem is that they often get enforced with what some believe are too-wide interpretations, so the America Invents Act included a clause in it to try to reform this by letting companies appeal to a board over how general the patent in question really is.

An amendment to remove the section concerning the business method patents was defeated 262-158.

"We couldn't have done this company 10 to 15 years ago and it's not because business method patents weren't clarified," he said.

(One of the most famous business method patents is Amazon's One-Click shopping cart patent).

The lawsuit filed on Monday by Yahoo against Facebook over alleged infringements of certain "method" patents was a high profile step for Yahoo to take in the lead-up to Facebook's IPO.

Last session, two Democratic members of Congress proposed legislation that would change the way business-method patents are processed.