The U.S. Supreme Court will narrow the universe of process innovations that can be patented to those that are "technological," but what will that mean for software?
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Only Technological Processes Are Patentable
By Pamela Samuelson
Communications of the ACM,
Vol. 53 No. 3, Pages 25-27
10.1145/1666420.1666432
![[article image]](https://cacm.acm.org/system/assets/0000/2344/021610_CACMpg25_Only_Technological.large.jpg?1476779401&1266347313 "Pamela Samuelson in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building")
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What is claimed:
A method for causing a physical transformation with a concrete result in the brain of a Supreme Court Justice consisting of:
(a) a sentence that informs the justice that all mental activities have concrete, tangible results;
(b) a series of FMRI images that provide evidence for the said sentence;
(c) at least one electro-physiological brain assay comparing SCJ before and after reading this claim;
wherein the said SCJ comes to their senses just in time to support useful innovative arts, regardless of the physical manifestation of said arts