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Changes to US subject matter eligibility requirements may finally replace Alice 

2/28/2017

 
The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) has recently proposed a set of amendments to 35 U.S.C. 101, precluding courts from muddying their 101 statutory eligibility analysis with irrelevant considerations imported from the obviousness standard 35 U.S.C. 103. The proposed amendments also specifically limit statutorily ineligible subject matter to that which "exists in nature independently of and prior to any human activity, or exists solely in the human mind."  These amendments are sorely needed in the wake of the Alice and Mayo, which essentially rendered most software as being unpatentable for being directed to an "abstract idea."

More information on this story can be found at FB Rice:

Goodbye Alice?  Proposed changes to US subject matter eligibility test move away from recent court decisions

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