At a minimum, the Supreme Court tells the Federal Circuit to wield a scalpel, not a sledgehammer, when implementing an exceptions-based eligibility test...Strike three!
The U.S. Supreme Court's flimsy eligibility jurisprudence offers the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) several 'softball pitches' to avoid a patent bloodbath.
This passage from Mayo is the Court's outright admission of the weakness of its choice to substitute its exceptions for the language of the Patent Act.
In Mayo, however, the Court explains that the previous rule remains in place (an application of a nat...
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