After the Supreme Court denied certiorari, the risk to patent holders has only grown, say Robert McFarlane and Rosanna Gan of Hanson Bridgett LLP.

For more than two centuries, American patent law has permitted inventors to obtain patents on new and useful processes, machines, manufactures, and compositions of matter. 35 USC §101. Alongside this broad statutory provision, the Supreme Court has long held that abstract ideas, laws of nature, and natural phenomena cannot be patented.

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