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7 months agoLaw
Supreme Court Denies Inventor's Bid to End Alice/Mayo for a Second Time
The United States Supreme Court denied inventor Jeffrey Killian's petition for a rehearing in his case asking for clarity on the Alice/Mayo test for patent eligibility.
Killian argued that the Alice/Mayo test has been capricious and should be set aside.
Killian filed a request for rehearing after Senators introduced a bill, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), which would eliminate all judicially-created exceptions to patent eligibility law. [ more ]