Thesis

• 1980 - Breakthrough

  • U.S. Supreme Court reinterprets scope of what can be patented
  • everything under the sun made by the hand of man
    • Comm’r of Patents v Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303
      • L. Greenlee, New Criteria for Patentable Subject Matter: Microorganisms & Computer-Related Technology, 47 Brooklyn L. Rev. 43 (1980)

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