CAFC’s Plager says “emperor clearly has no clothes” on Section 101

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CAFC’s Plager says “emperor clearly has no clothes” on Section 101

Federal Circuit 165

Judge Plager criticises “incoherent body of doctrine”, noting the problem with trying to define “abstract ideas” is that, “as applied to as-yet-unknown cases with as-yet unknown inventions, it cannot be done except through the use of equally abstract terms”

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