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From page 37... ... 37 invention or discovery is not necessarily patentable simply because the invention or discovery involves the use of a computer. At issue in Alice was whether a financial program used "to facilitate the exchange of financial obligations between two parties by using a computer system as a third party intermediary" was patentable.537 The Court explained that patentable subject matter under section 101 does not include "[l] Read the entire page →
From page 38... ... 38 of an employee.554 The applicable rules presently are set forth in 37 C.F.R. part 501.555 State agencies, for example, those in California, Florida, Minnesota, New York, Texas, and Virginia, may file for patents.556 In Florida, state agencies may own patents only with legislative authorization, whereas in New York individual agencies may decide whether to patent their inventions.557 Only two transit agencies responding to the survey reported having developed a project in the previous five years that was patentable;558 however, no agency stated that it had filed for and/or obtained a patent on any discovery or invention resulting from a technology project. Read the entire page →
From page 39... ... 39 The Act defines the term invention as "any invention or discovery which is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable" under 35 U.S.C. § 1, et seq.; however, the term subject invention under Bayh–Dole applies to "any invention of the contractor conceived or first actually reduced to practice in the performance of work under a funding agreement…."574 Subject to other conditions and exceptions stated in § 202(c) Read the entire page →

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... 37 invention or discovery is not necessarily patentable simply because the invention or discovery involves the use of a computer. At issue in Alice was whether a financial program used "to facilitate the exchange of financial obligations between two parties by using a computer system as a third party intermediary" was patentable.537 The Court explained that patentable subject matter under section 101 does not include "[l]

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... 38 of an employee.554 The applicable rules presently are set forth in 37 C.F.R. part 501.555 State agencies, for example, those in California, Florida, Minnesota, New York, Texas, and Virginia, may file for patents.556 In Florida, state agencies may own patents only with legislative authorization, whereas in New York individual agencies may decide whether to patent their inventions.557 Only two transit agencies responding to the survey reported having developed a project in the previous five years that was patentable;558 however, no agency stated that it had filed for and/or obtained a patent on any discovery or invention resulting from a technology project.

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... 39 The Act defines the term invention as "any invention or discovery which is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable" under 35 U.S.C. § 1, et seq.; however, the term subject invention under Bayh–Dole applies to "any invention of the contractor conceived or first actually reduced to practice in the performance of work under a funding agreement…."574 Subject to other conditions and exceptions stated in § 202(c)

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