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*Benson filed a patent for a method for converting numerical information from binary-coded decimal numbers into pure binary numbers | |||
**Ruled as merely a series of mathematical calculations or mental steps | |||
*Claims were not limited to any specific machine, technology, use, etc. | |||
*Need to determine if the method described is a "process" | |||
**The procedure in the present claim is an algorithm | |||
*The conversion from BCD to pure binary can be done mentally using a table | |||
**This method varies the ordinary human steps by changing the order and symbolism and by taking subtotals after each operation | |||
*Cite previous examples of including a law into a process | |||
**Claims need to be limited to a specific arrangement of machinery or something similar | |||
===Laws of patentability=== | |||
*Phenomena of nature, mental processes, and abstract intellectual concepts cannot be patented | |||
**A novel and useful structure created with the air of one of these may be patentable | |||
*The key to the patentability of a process which does not involve a specific machine is | |||
<blockquote>A process is a mode of treatment of certain materials to produce a given result. It is an act, or a series of acts, performed upon the subject-matter to be transformed and reduced ''to a different state or thing''.</blockquote> | |||
**Process patent must either use a particular machine or apparatus or must change the articles or materials to a different state or thing | |||
*Creation of programs has grown substantially without patent protection | |||
==Class Notes== | ==Class Notes== | ||
Revision as of 20:53, 6 February 2011
Read for 2/7/11
Reading Notes
- Benson filed a patent for a method for converting numerical information from binary-coded decimal numbers into pure binary numbers
- Ruled as merely a series of mathematical calculations or mental steps
- Claims were not limited to any specific machine, technology, use, etc.
- Need to determine if the method described is a "process"
- The procedure in the present claim is an algorithm
- The conversion from BCD to pure binary can be done mentally using a table
- This method varies the ordinary human steps by changing the order and symbolism and by taking subtotals after each operation
- Cite previous examples of including a law into a process
- Claims need to be limited to a specific arrangement of machinery or something similar
Laws of patentability
- Phenomena of nature, mental processes, and abstract intellectual concepts cannot be patented
- A novel and useful structure created with the air of one of these may be patentable
- The key to the patentability of a process which does not involve a specific machine is
A process is a mode of treatment of certain materials to produce a given result. It is an act, or a series of acts, performed upon the subject-matter to be transformed and reduced to a different state or thing.
- Process patent must either use a particular machine or apparatus or must change the articles or materials to a different state or thing
- Creation of programs has grown substantially without patent protection
