[[U.S. Supreme Court]] decisions in ''[[Bilski v. Kappos]]'' (2010) and ''Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank'' (2014) made it more difficult to patent computer-related inventions by expanding the exclusion from eligibility of "abstract ideas," while ''Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus'' (2012) and ''Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics'' (2013), denied patents to life sciences under an expanded view of "laws of nature." | [[U.S. Supreme Court]] decisions in ''[[Bilski v. Kappos]]'' (2010) and ''Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank'' (2014) made it more difficult to patent computer-related inventions by expanding the exclusion from eligibility of "abstract ideas," while ''Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus'' (2012) and ''Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics'' (2013), denied patents to life sciences under an expanded view of "laws of nature." |