In re: Bilski

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gptkbp:instanceOf legal case
gptkbp:caseTypes appeal
2007-1130
gptkbp:citedBy numerous patent cases
gptkbp:court gptkb:United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Federal_Circuit
affirmed lower court's ruling
gptkbp:decidedBy October 30, 2008
gptkbp:field business
law
technology
gptkbp:gameFeatures Bernard Bilski
gptkbp:impact software patents
gptkbp:influencedBy Supreme_Court_decisions
gptkbp:involves business methods
gptkbp:judges gptkb:Judge_Newman
Federal_Circuit_review
gptkbp:keyIssues abstract ideas
gptkbp:legalStatus intellectual property
machine-or-transformation test
business methods are not patentable
narrowed scope of patentable inventions
not all inventions are patentable
patent application rejected
Bilski_v._Kappos,_561_U.S._593_(2010)
gptkbp:notableEvent 35 U.S.C. § 101
gptkbp:outcome reaffirmed the machine-or-transformation test
gptkbp:politicalParty gptkb:Judge_Rader
gptkbp:precedent patent eligibility
gptkbp:relatedPatent gptkb:Mayo_Collaborative_Services_v._Prometheus_Laboratories
gptkb:Association_for_Molecular_Pathology_v._Myriad_Genetics
patentable subject matter
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Bilski_v._Kappos
gptkbp:respondsTo gptkb:David_Kappos
gptkbp:significance impact on patent law