The Alice Court\u2019s characterization of computer programming has effectively repudiated, inter alia, the doctrine that programming a general-purpose computer creates a patent-eligible \u201cnew machine.\u201d This Article revisits In re Bernhart, the first holding based on the \u201cnew machine\u201d principle, concluding that the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals committed a category mistake in conducting its nonobviousness analysis. This suggests that \u00a7 101 has a unique role to play in ensuring the analytical coherence of the other tests for patentability, and that step two of the Mayo\/Alice test could helpfully enforce the doctrinal distinction between a patent-eligible \u201cmethod or means\u201d and an unpatentable \u201cresult or effect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Alice Court\u2019s characterization of computer programming has effectively repudiated, inter alia, the doctrine that programming a general-purpose computer creates a patent-eligible \u201cnew machine.\u201d This Article revisits In re Bernhart, the first holding based on the \u201cnew machine\u201d principle, concluding that the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals committed a category mistake in conducting its …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,62,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7325,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/7325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}