By Kevin E. Noonan — Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced S. 4734, entitled "A Bill to amend Title 35, U.S. Code, to address matters relating to patent subject matter eligibility, and for other purposes" last night, as was discussed in an earlier Patent Docs post (see "Senator Tillis Proposes Patent Eligibility Reform (Again)"). Even a cursory read of the bill reveals that portions of it have been specifically crafted to address issues that have arisen in the inferior courts’ applications of the Supreme Court’s recent subject matter eligibility jurisprudence (particularly, and chronologically, Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., Association…
