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Technology & Science

Nov. 6, 2009

What Can Be Patented?

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Monday what is patentable subject matter in a case that has many intellectual property experts uneasy.

By Craig Anderson

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN JOSE For the first time in nearly three decades, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider in oral arguments Monday what is patentable subject matter, in a case that has many intellectual property experts uneasy - and uncertain - about what standard the justices will adopt.

The court has, in recent years, made a series of decisions that have curtailed the legal rights of patent owner...

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