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transforms our lives without physical anchors. This court’s test not only risks hobbling
these advances, but precluding patent protection for tomorrow’s technologies. “We still
do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”
Attributed to Albert Einstein. If this court has its way, the Patent Act may not incentivize,
but complicate, our search for the vast secrets of nature. When all else fails, consult the
statute.