A Review of Recent Decisions of the US Ct of Apps for the Fed. Cir.: Practical Utility is Useless
Cite
36 Am. U. L. Rev. 811
Year
1987
Bluebook cite
Eric P. Mirabel, A Review of Recent Decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: "Practical Utility" is a Useless Concept, 36 Am. U. L. Rev. 811 (1987).
This article argues that the original interpretation of utility by the court was when the court held "a process which operated as disclosed to produce a known product is 'useful' within the meaning of section 101." Therefore, the article argues that succeeding interpretations provide unintended meanings of utility.