How Congress Could Abolish Patent Eligibility Exceptions

By Andrew Michaels (July 1, 2019, 12:03 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has long held that laws of nature, natural phenomena and abstract ideas are not patent eligible, even though these exceptions to patent eligibility appear nowhere in the patent statute. Members of Congress, via the proposed Tillis-Coons bill, are currently considering trying to abrogate these exceptions. Here is the relevant currently proposed legislative language:...

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