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Atextual Conditions for Patentability and Stare Decisis

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Steve Gass has a PhD in physics and also a patent attorney. And, in any case, these exceptions have defined the reach of the statute as a matter of statutory stare decisis going back 150 years. My middle school shop teacher was missing fingers courtesy of a table saw. Kappos , 561 U.S. 593 (2010). 35 U.S.C. §