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It's On Course for the Supreme Court

Legal Times
July 7, 2008

Arner, Erika Harmon

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Finnegan attorney Erika Arner's article examines recent patent case law and asks if the time has come for the Supreme Court to redefine what kinds of inventions may be patented. Modern doctrine on the scope of patentable inventions was last set in 1981 and allows a patent for a "process" among other things. Changing technologies, however, have led many to think that the time has come for the Supreme Court to revisit and perhaps revise its Section 101 for jurisprudence.

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