Parker v. Flook ruling by US Supreme Court on 22 June 1978

Parker v Flook, 437 U.S. 584 (1978) was a case in the Supreme Court of the USA.

Excerpts

• "[t]he process itself, not merely the mathematical algorithm [...] must be new and useful." at 591

• "[t]he notion that post-solution activity, no matter how conventional or obvious in itself, can transform an unpatentable principle into a patentable process exalts form over substance" because "[a] competent draftsman could attach some form of post-solution activity to almost any mathematical formula"