Are both Diamond v. Chakrabarty and Gates v. Collier United States Supreme Court cases?
Diamond v. Chakrabarty Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with whether genetically modified organisms can be patented.
Diamond v. Diehr Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175 (1981) , was a United States Supreme Court decision which held that controlling the execution of a physical process, by running a computer program did not preclude patentability of the invention as a whole. The high court reiterated its earlier holdings that mathematical formulas in the abstract could not be patented, but it held that the mere presence of a software element did not make an otherwise patent-eligible machine or process patent ineligible. "Diehr" was the third member of a trilogy of Supreme Court decisions on the patent-eligibility of computer software related inventions.