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June 30, 2022

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"The case was possibly the best opportunity yet to clarify what was meant by the remarkably vague two-part test set forth in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l."

No way. Ariosa v. Sequenom was the best vehicle yet by which the Court could have done a course-correction. The fact that the Court passed on Sequenom made me skeptical that they would take American Axle.

The bottom line is that they have had many, *many* good opportunities by now to fix the mess that they made, but they have passed on all of them. The Court (wrongly) does not regard §101 as presently broken, and thus they (wrongly) do not perceive a need to fix it.

For better or worse, any solution that will arrive in the next century will come from the Congress. The Court *likes* the current status quo, and has no desire to change it.

"Fixing Alice has proven remarkably difficult despite its obvious problems. Congress tried three years ago and gave up."

They "gave up" because the community of patent professionals stopped them. *We* sabotaged the §101 fix because it came packaged with a §112 reform. Perhaps some day we will grow up and learn that half a loaf is better than nothing. So long as we take the my-way-or-the-highway approach to statutory fixes, however, we are doomed to stall out in the status quo.

I would counter Mr. DeLassus's assertion in that the "because it came packaged with a §112 reform." was not somehow a legitimate rejection.

It has been well pointed out that the "packaged with a §112 reform" was nothing more than a disastrous poison pill - a trojan horse that would have been far worse than even the current §101 debacle.

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