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But most importantly, when an effective treatment became available, it was disseminated worldwide, and part of that happened because isoniazid was unpatentable, so costs for producing it and treating people with it remained low.

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023

District Judge Richard Andrews in Delaware said the voting-machine patent covered unpatentable abstract ideas related to "the individual steps of voting."

From Reuters • Apr. 25, 2023

Abbott told the publication: “It ignores the purpose of the Patent Act and the outcome that AI-generated inventions are now unpatentable in the United States. That is an outcome with real negative social consequences.”

From The Verge • Aug. 8, 2022

The board concluded that the challenged claims were unpatentable.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2017

Patents are increasingly stretched to cover "ideas" that twenty years ago all scholars would have agreed were unpatentable.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James