{"id":41972,"date":"2026-05-07T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/?p=41972"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:41:43","slug":"resolution-on-patent-subject-matter-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/index.php\/resolution-on-patent-subject-matter-eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolution on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b><i data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">RESOLVED,\u00a0<\/i><\/b>that<b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b>patent subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 101 should provide clear, predictable, and technology-neutral standards that promote innovation across all fields of technology and are consistent with international obligations, including the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS); and<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b><i>RESOLVED FURTHER,\u00a0<\/i><\/b>that patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 101 should not discriminate against any field of technology in the grant, exercise, utilization, or enforcement of patent rights; and<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b><i>RESOLVED FURTHER,\u00a0<\/i><\/b>that patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 101 should be limited to technological inventions, such that non-technological subject matter remains outside the proper scope of the patent system unless the claims, supported by the specification, are directed to a technological solution to a technological problem, which can include a specific improvement to the way computers operate; non-technological subject matter include methods of organizing human activity, processes in non-technological fields (including banking, finance, culture, and the arts), economic or commercial principles and activity, mathematical formulas, mental processes, and activities occurring entirely in the human mind; and<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b><i>RESOLVED FURTHER,\u00a0<\/i><\/b>that inventions directed to technological solutions to technological problems\u2014including specific improvements to the way computers operate such as specific technological improvements to computer functionality, software, and user interfaces\u2014should be eligible for patent protection when the solution or improvement is recited in the claims and supported by the specification consistent with\u00a0<i>Enfish LLC v. Microsoft Corp.<\/i>, 822 F.3d 1327 (Fed. Cir. 2016),\u00a0<i>Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L. v. LG Electronics, Inc.<\/i>, 880 F.3d 1356, 1362\u201363 (Fed. Cir. 2018),\u00a0<i>Amdocs (Isr.) Ltd. v. Openet Telecom, Inc.<\/i>, 841 F.3d 1288, 1300\u201301 (Fed. Cir. 2016),\u00a0<i>BASCOM Glob. Internet Servs., Inc. v. AT&amp;T Mobility LLC<\/i>, 827 F.3d 1341, 1350\u201351 (Fed. Cir. 2016), and\u00a0<i>Data Engine Techs. LLC v. Google LLC<\/i>, 906 F.3d 999, 1011 (Fed. Cir. 2018); and<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b><i>RESOLVED FURTHER,\u00a0<\/i><\/b>that modifications and applications of natural phenomena should be considered technological inventions, and therefore should be eligible for patent protection, including methods of medical treatment, vectors for gene therapy, and inventions involving genes or naturally occurring materials that have been isolated, purified, enriched, or otherwise altered by human intervention or employed in a useful invention, while unmodified genetic material or other naturally occurring materials in their native state, and processes that occur entirely in nature, should remain ineligible; and that judicial decisions inconsistent with these principles, including\u00a0<i>Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. 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