Random bit: Textualism, the Patent Act, and Section 101

I still need to post my view about how to predict the Supreme Court's view on 101 (it turns on two variables), but in preparing for class, I'm reading Pfaff.  Over and over again, the court talks about the text of the act, and how "nontextual arguments" should be rejected.

I can't wait to see this issue of whether 101 is a defense resolved…

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Professor of Law, Mercer University School of Law. 2012-13, judicial clerk to Chief Judge Rader. Expert witness and consultant.