Legal Opinion
Bilski v. Kappos
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 28, 2010No. 08-964PublishedCited by 559 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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[561 U.S. 597]
Justice Kennedy
delivered the opinion of the Court, except as to Parts II-B-2 and II-C-2.*
The question in this case turns on whether a patent can be issued for a claimed invention designed for the business
[561 U.S. 598]
world. The patent application claims a procedure for instructing buyers and sellers how to protect against the risk of price fluctuations in a discrete section of the economy. Three arguments are advanced for the proposition that the claimed invention is outside the scope of patent law: (1) It is not tied to a machine and does not transform an…
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