1. What is Patentable Subject Matter? Dan L. Burk Chancellor’s Professor of Law University of California, Irvine

2. Article 52 EPC The following in particular shall not be regarded as inventions within the meaning of paragraph 1:  discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;  aesthetic creations;  schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business, and programs for computers;  presentations of information.

3. Section 101  Four Categories  “Anything under the sun”  Judicial Exceptions  Abstract ideas  Laws of nature  Products of nature  Mental steps (?)  Printed matter (?)

4. Judicial Exceptions  No Independent Content  Novelty  Pre-existing  Naturally occurring  Inventiveness  Pre-1952 cases  Utility  Judge Moore

5. The First Round  Gottschalk v. Benson  Binary notation  Parker v. Flook  Alarm limits  Diamond v. Chakrabarty  Living organisms  Diamond v. Diehr  Cured rubber process

6. The Second Round  Bilski v. Kappos  Hedging business method  Mayo v. Prometheus  Diagnostic method  AMP v. Myriad  DNA sequences  Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank  Auction business method

7. Mayo v. Prometheus  Diagnostic/treatment Method  Drug metabolism  Unclear Basis  Law of nature?  Abstract idea?  Mental steps?  Unpatentable Correlations

8. AMP v. Myriad Genetics  Products of Nature  First clear holding  gDNA and cDNA  Different outcomes  Distinguishing Molecules  Information?  Structure?  Future Application

9. Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank  Business Method  Process, system, media  Stand or fall together  Two-Step Test  First, forbidden category?  Second, inventive concept  The Myriad Puzzle

10. The Myriad Puzzle  Prometheus Unremarked  The Two-step Test  cDNA passes  gDNA fails  First Prong  No Inventive concept  Entirely conventional

11. The “Inventive Concept”  Subject Matter Obviousness  Without 103 limitations  Levels of Abstraction  Alice first prong  Shades of copyright  101 Claim Interpretation  Without construction  The “draftsman’s art”

12. Thank You Questions Welcome