IAMblog: SCOTUS in Re Bilski: Machine or Transformation Not the Only Test, Bilski Not Patentable
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Started by: ggiedkeggiedke
Date: 28 Jun 2010 22:01
Number of posts: 1
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Summary:
Today, after a wait of nearly 8 months the Supreme Court has seemingly got it right [...]. In doing away with the machine or transformation test as the sole test for determining whether an invention is patentable subject matter the Supreme Court has kicked open the door and will not allow it to be closed on new technologies and innovations that we cannot today imagine. Processes have always been patentable and there is no justifiable reason to require a process to be tied to a machine in order to be patentable. Similarly, there is no justifiable reason to exclude business methods from being considered patentable subject matter. So once again, it seems an expansive vision of what suffices as patentable subject matter prevails.
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