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Revision as of 16:00, 28 April 2010
Gottschalk v. Benson, 409 U.S. 63 (1972) was a case in the Supreme Court of the USA.
This was the first of the patentable subject matter "trilogy", along with Parker v. Flook (1978) and Diamond v. Diehr (1981).
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This ruling formed the basis of the 2008 in re Bilski ruling's particular machine or transformation test:
Transformation and reduction of an article 'to a different state or thing' is the clue to the patentability of a process claim that does not include particular machines.
