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Only Technological Processes Are Patentable

By Pamela Samuelson
Communications of the ACM, March 2010, Vol. 53 No. 3, Pages 25-27
10.1145/1666420.1666432
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Pamela Samuelson in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building — Pamela Samuelson holding the Bilski brief in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building.

Courtesy of Pamela Samuelson

The U.S. Supreme Court will narrow the universe of process innovations that can be patented to those that are "technological," but what will that mean for software?

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Apperson Johnson

March 19, 2010 05:51

What is claimed:

A method for causing a physical transformation with a concrete result in the brain of a Supreme Court Justice consisting of:
(a) a sentence that informs the justice that all mental activities have concrete, tangible results;
(b) a series of FMRI images that provide evidence for the said sentence;
(c) at least one electro-physiological brain assay comparing SCJ before and after reading this claim;
wherein the said SCJ comes to their senses just in time to support useful innovative arts, regardless of the physical manifestation of said arts

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