BIO’s Hans Sauer Calls for Less Confusing Patent Eligibility Standards

Hans Sauer, BIO’s Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property, recently testified at the second of three hearings in the Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the subject of “The State of Patent Eligibility in America.”
The hearings are looking at Section 101 of the Patent Act (35 USC 101) which governs what sort of inventions are eligible for patent protection.  Over the last 9 years, the Supreme Court has crafted common law exceptio