Patent eligibility refers to whether an invention falls within a legally patentable category at all, separate from whether it's novel or inventive. Software and diagnostic method inventions face the most frequent eligibility challenges worldwide: US courts have drawn a strict line against claims that read as abstract ideas, and the EPO requires software claims to show a technical effect beyond a program “as such”.
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