XpresSpa Group Inc (XSPA)

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Did SCOTUS really do anything new (surely nothing they could patent)? Abstract ideas are already not patentable. SCOTUS decided Alice corps patent was abstract.

Abstract ideas, such mathematical formulas, are not patentable. They are neither a process, machine, manufacture, nor composition of matter. They lack utility, since they have no particular use, much like a composition of matter whose uses are unknown.

The application of an abstract idea toward the solution of a problem results in something that is no longer an abstract idea. It could be a product (machine, manufacture, or composition of matter) based on the abstract idea or a process that employs the abstract idea to achieve a desired result, such as transforming a composition of matter to another form. Such applications of abstract ideas can be patentable if they are novel and nonobvious.