KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex Inc.
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Primary author of Amicus Curiae brief before the Supreme Court of the United States in KSR (See 2006 WL 2967758 (Oct. 16, 2006))
Robert Allison Matthews Jr.'s Legal Cases (2)
Forest, VA
Patent infringement Lawyer at Forest, VA
Practice Areas: Patent Infringement
Bilski v. Doll
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Amicus curiae brief submitted in the Supreme Court of the United States in the matter of Bilski v Doll, No. 08-964 in support of the petition for a writ of certiorari to review the Federal Circuit's en ... banc ruling in In re Bilski, 545 F.3d 943 (Fed. Cir. 2008). The Bilski case raises the fundamental question of what methods or process can be patented and what standards courts should use to determine whether a process has patent eligible subject matter. While the patent application at issue in Bilski is directed to so called “business methods,†the ruling of Bilski may affect process patents in other industries, such as the biotechnology industry. It therefore presents an issue of great importance to the United States patent system. The brief urges the Supreme Court to grant a writ of certiorari on the basis that the en banc court’s pronouncement in Bilski that the “machine-or-transformation†test is the “only†test for determining patent eligibility for process inventions is too restrictive, contradicts Supreme Court precedent, and risks excluding from patent protection important process inventions in the areas of methods of diagnosing and treating diseases, particularly in the emerging field of personalized medicine.
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