Patent law is crucial to encourage technological innovation. But as the patent system currently stands, diverse … differently. The result is a crisis in the patent system, where patents calibrated to the needs of prescription drugs wreak havoc … of Chicago Press, courts should use the tools the patent system already gives them to treat patents in different …

process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent … predecessors, the boundaries of patent eligibility dictated by the term “process” and the term “art” that it replaced, along with … acknowledged the existence of the many lower court tests for patent eligibility that have evolved and even encouraged development …