Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of Patentable Inventions

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The Supreme Court today affirmed the Federal Circuit’s holding that Bilski’s business method was unpatentable subject matter because it sought to claim patent protection on an abstract idea. But the Court rejected the Federal Circuit’s bright-line “machine or transformation” test as the sole test for determining whether an invention is eligible for patent protection.

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