In Re Ralph R. Grams and Dennis C. Lezotte

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding unpatentable “a method of diagnosing an abnormal condition in an individual” that comprised performing clinical tests and thinking about the results
• rejecting claim to process of diagnosing “abnormal condition” in person by identifying and noticing discrepancies in results of unspecified clinical tests of different parts of body
• rejecting claim to process of diagnosing \abnormal condition\ in person by identifying and noticing discrepancies in results of unspecified clinical tests of different parts of body
• listing “methods of doing business” as among categories of non-patentable subject matter
• “The presence of a physical step in the claim to derive data for the algorithm will not render the claim statutory”
• step of \deriv[ing] data for the algorithm will not render the claim statutory\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).