Philosophy is enquiry, critical and open-ended enquiry, in which examination of evidence, assumptions, claims, methods and motivations is conducted according to the public and challengeable discipline of reason.
Scientific objectivity is a characteristic of scientific claims, methods and results.
Claims, methods and results can be more or less objective, and, other things being equal, the more objective, the better.
Like many patents from that period (for example those cited by Paul Allen in last year's omnibus suit) these are quite broad in their specificity, claiming methods that seem now to be no-brainer approaches to the task described.
It expresses the idea that the claims, methods and results of science are not, or should not be influenced by particular perspectives, value commitments, community bias or personal interests, to name a few relevant factors.
For decades Indigenous peoples have argued for health research reform claiming methods used and results obtained often reflect the exploitative history of colonisation.
The claims "purported to cover any use of the claimed method in a general-purpose digital computer of any type". 409 U.S., at 64, 65, 93 S.Ct.
Under Federal Circuit case law, direct infringement liability under § 271(a) requires that a single party perform all steps of the claimed method.
Limelight argued and the Supreme Court agreed that, because Limelight did not control its customers' performance of a step in the claimed method, but merely helped them independently perform that step, direct infringement never occurred under § 271(a).
the term "patented use of a composition of matter" does not include a claim for a method of performing a medical or surgical procedure on a body that recites the use of a composition of matter where the use of that composition of matter does not directly contribute to achievement of the objective of the claimed method.
