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The rating of LOW IMPORTANCE does not square with the fact that the US Supreme Court will shortly hear argument in Bilski v. Kappos to decide whether the Machine-or-transformation test should be the proper (or sole) test of patent-eligibility for processes. PraeceptorIP (talk) 22:28, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
I think the low importance rating is appropriate here. An article on Intellectual Property or Patent is one that ought to be rated High. An article on subtopics like Inventive step and non-obviousness and Patentable subject matter as Medium. But the test itself? Clearly Low, in the great scheme of things. Someone interested in Law (which is the scope of the project) would not have "Machine-or-transformation test" at the top of their list of things to read about. TJRC (talk) 20:34, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Is there a case or source in support of this point? bd2412 T 05:23, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Points for the experts:
Are the examples dicussed wrt footnotes 27, 28 and 29 really eligible for patenting (hypothetically)? Assuming someone did devise such machines to clean clothes, would they not be challenged on grounds of 'lack of novelty'? Can a better example be provided instead?
Also wrt the example illustrating the proposition that satisfying the machine-or-transformation test is not a sufficient condition for patent-eligibility ("apparatus for exercising a cat") wouldn't that patent fail the test of non-obviousness and also perhaps novelty? Is the emphasis given in the article to the question of the utility of this 'useful Art' justified, since patents have not been denied on the 'degree of utility?' Could a better example have been used?
(Prmsm (talk) 12:24, 23 December 2009 (UTC))
"...it is now clear that this test is only a way to measure whether the patent claim in issue preempts substantially all applications of the underlying idea or principle on which a patent is based" is flat-out wrong. The "test" is not even a test anymore, and it gives rise to no legal conclusions. This entire article needs to be cut by 80%, or simply deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:7101:6900:5400:DEE9:8011:27AE (talk) 08:53, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
There is a font problem in the 2nd par. and I don't know how to fix it. Would someone else please fix it? PraeceptorIP (talk) 17:11, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
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I don't think this is NPOV, and later SCOTUS decisions showed that this test is deficient to draw a proper line between patentable and non-patentable subject-matter. Transformation is actually the process of adding value, which is necessary but by no means sufficient. "Upstream" subject-matter like mere science should at least be excluded. Rbakels (talk) 16:17, 12 November 2023 (UTC)