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- AT&T Corp. v. Excel Commc’ns, Inc. 172 F.3d 1352 (Fed. Cir. 1999) - [PDF 196 KB]
- Cochrane v. Deener, 94 U.S. 780 (1876) [PDF 65 KB]
- In re Comiskey, 499 F.3d 1365 (Fed. Cir. 2007) [PDF 309 KB]
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- The Patent Reform Act of 2008 (S.1145)
- Nicholas A. Smith, Business Method Patents and their Limits: Justifications, History, and the Emergence of a Claim Construction Jurisprudence, 9 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. 171, 184 (2002)
- Explaining that “[t]he only remaining reason to set aside business method patents as somehow different and undesirable requires one to embrace the untenable (and rather insulting) proposition that business persons are incapable of drawing from the innovations of others when innovating for themselves, even though chemists, biologist, and engineers are fully capable of doing so.”
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Adedeji B. Badiru, Handbook of Industrial and Systems Engineering (Taylor & Francis Group 2006)
- “An important aspect of industrial engineering is its concern with the human element in industrial processes.”
- Wayne C. Turner et al., Introduction to Industrial and Systems Engineering (Prentice Hall, 3d ed. 1993)
- “[T]he systems designed by industrial engineers involve people as basic components.”
- United States Patent and Trademark Office, Automated Financial or Management Data Processing Methods (Business Methods) (USPTO White Paper, 2000)