自然规律和生物技术的买卖LAWS OF NATURE AND THE BUSINESS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY.docVIP

Source: Legal Secondary Legal Law Reviews Journals Law Reviews, CLE, Legal Journals Periodicals, Combined Terms: physical transformation (Edit Search | Suggest Terms for My Search) Select for FOCUS? or Delivery 24 Santa Clara Computer High Tech. L.J. 275, * Copyright (c) 2008 Santa Clara Computer High Technology Law Journal Santa Clara Computer High Technology Law Journal January, 2008 24 Santa Clara Computer High Tech. L.J. 275 LENGTH: 32423 words ARTICLE: 自然规律和生物技术的买卖LAWS OF NATURE AND THE BUSINESS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY NAME: Philip McGarrigle+ Vern Norviel++ BIO: + Adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University. Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Affymetrix, Inc. ++ Adjunct professor at Santa Clara University. Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati. Mr. McGarrigle and Mr. Norviel work for entities that filed amicus briefs in the LabCorp appeal. The views expressed herein are solely those of the authors and do not reflect the views of Affymetrix, Inc., or Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati. SUMMARY: ... An appeal entitled LabCorp v. Metabolite raised the product of nature exception to patentability, but this issue was not decided by the full court. ... For example, among other questions, he asked: does a process always require transformation; is it sufficient that energy be transformed; will the use of a general purpose machine always make a claim statutory, even when the machine is old; when will a physical step convert the claim into statutory subject matter; is State Street Bank limited to transformation of data by a machine; and what is the definition of useful, concrete, and tangible? The issue to be decided on appeal will relate to the requirement for a physical transformation or physical device in the claims versus the application of the useful, concrete, and tangible result test without a machine. ... HIGHLIGHT: Abstract The Supreme Court has shown an interest in the In