Ex Parte Bowman 61 USPQ 2d 1669 (Bd. Pat. App. & Int. 2001) was a decision by the U.S. Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences

Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences

The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences is an administrative law body of the United States Patent and Trademark Office , which decides issues of patentability. The Chief Administrative Patent Judge is James Donald Smith.-Structure:...

 which asserted that in order to be patent-eligible, a process had to involve or promote the technological arts. This decision was overruled by the Board's subsequent Ex Parte Lundgren

Ex Parte Lundgren

Ex parte Lundgren is a decision by the United States Patent and Trademark Office board of appeals, i.e. the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences , that asserts that process inventions do not have to be in the technological arts in order to be patentable in the United States. They do, however,...

decision, but the Board's and then the Federal Circuit's In re Bilski

In re Bilski

In re Bilski, 545 F.3d 943, 88 U.S.P.Q.2d 1385 , was an en banc decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on the patenting of method claims, particularly business methods. The Federal Circuit court affirmed the rejection of the patent claims involving a method of...

 opinion then superseded Lundgren. In re Bilski, however, rejects use of "not in the technological arts" as a basis for a rejection, although it seems to accept the concept when differently named. Bilski is now pending on writ of certiorari

Certiorari

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See also

• Business method patent
  Business method patent
  Business method patents are a class of patents which disclose and claim new methods of doing business. This includes new types of e-commerce, insurance, banking, tax compliance etc. Business method patents are a relatively new species of patent and there have been several reviews investigating the...
  
  
• Diamond v. Diehr
  Diamond v. Diehr
  Diamond v. Diehr, , was a 1981 U.S. Supreme Court decision which held that the execution of a physical process, controlled by running a computer program was patentable...
  
  
• Ex Parte Lundgren
  Ex Parte Lundgren
  Ex parte Lundgren is a decision by the United States Patent and Trademark Office board of appeals, i.e. the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences , that asserts that process inventions do not have to be in the technological arts in order to be patentable in the United States. They do, however,...
  
  
• Freeman-Walter-Abele Test
  Freeman-Walter-Abele Test
  Freeman-Walter-Abele is an outdated judicial test in United States patent law. It came from decisions concerning software patents. It was used to determine if mathematical principles or algorithms were patentable subject matter. The Court of Customs and Patent Appeals introduced and refined these...
  
  
• State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group
• Machine-or-transformation test
  Machine-or-transformation test
  In United States patent law, the machine-or-transformation test is a test of patent eligibility under which a claim to a process qualifies to be considered for patenting if it is implemented with a particular machine, that is, one specifically devised and adapted to carry out the process in a way...