''Ex Parte Bowman'' 61 U.S.P.Q.2d 1669 (Bd. Pat. App. & Int. 2001) was a decision by the U.S. Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences which asserted that in order to be patent-eligible, a process had to involve or promote the technological arts. This decision was overruled by the Board's subsequent ''

Ex Parte Lundgren ''Ex parte Lundgren'' is a 2005 decision by the United States Patent and Trademark Office board of appeals, i.e. the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) concerning the standard for patent eligible subject matter in the United State ...

'' decision, but the Board's and then the Federal Circuit's

In re Bilski ''In re Bilski'', 545 F.3d 943, 88 U.S.P.Q.2d 1385 (Fed. Cir. 2008), was an ''en banc'' decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on the patenting of method claims, particularly business methods. The court ...

opinion then superseded ''Lundgren''. ''In re Bilski'', however, rejects use of "not in the technological arts" as a basis for a rejection, although it seems to accept the concept when differently named. ''Bilski'' was affirmed by the Supreme Court in '' Bilski v. Kappos''.

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