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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Nov. 14, 2008

Transformation Validation

The Federal Circuit's recent 'Bilski' decision engages the issue of invention and transformation, writes Michael M. Rosen. - Focus Column

FOCUS COLUMN

By Michael M. Rosen

Pablo Picasso once supposedly said, "There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun." Such transformations are the stuff not only of artistic creativity but also of science and technology, of engineering - in short, of invention.

Late last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal ...

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