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| − | {{navbox}}The '''particular machine or transformation''' test refers to the test described by the 2008 ruling of the [[USA]]'s CAFC in the case [[in re Bilski]].
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| − | :''A claimed process is surely patent-eligible under § 101 if: (1) it is tied to a particular machine or apparatus, or (2) it transforms a particular article into a different state or thing. See Benson, 409 U.S. at 70 ("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.'' Diehr, 450 U.S. at 192 (quoted in the CAFC's Bilski ruling)
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| − | ==Processes and machines==
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| − | Legislation in the USA allows the USPTO to grant patents for ''"any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof"''.<ref>http://www.law.cornell.edu/patent/35uscs101.html</ref>
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| − | The particular-machine-or-transformation test only applies to "processes". Thus, it seems that if a programmed computer was claimed as a "machine", it wouldn't have to pass the particular-machine-or-transformation test. This issue was discussed, and there was either confusion or disagreement about it at the [[US Supreme Court|Supreme Court]]'s hearing of [[Bilski v. Kappos (2009, USA)|Bilski v. Kappos]] in 2009. ([http://news.swpat.org/2009/11/bilski-hearing-transcript/ hearing transcript])
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| − | ==External links==
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| − | * Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-or-transformation_test Machine-or-transformation test]
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| − | * http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/07-1130.pdf - the 2008 CAFC Bilsk ruling
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| − | * [http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/10/16/how-the-machine-or-transformation-test-in-bilski-is-failing/ How The “Machine-Or-Transformation” Test In Bilski Is Failing]
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| − | ===Court rulings based on the test===
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| − | * http://legalpad.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/12/while-supremes-ponder-bilski-is-still-slayin-at-the-local-level.html
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