Judge Patti B. Saris cited that principle in the lower-court State Bank decision, noting some other key precedents: "Mental processes, and abstract intellectual concepts, are not patentable, as they are the basic tools of scientific and technological work".
It is also imperative to understand that early 'pioneers' in this discipline may not get it exactly right on the first attempt but by developing initial precedents and processes, these can be built upon in the future.
Obama said there is no precedent or process for revoking a Medal of Freedom.
They are not only balancing budgets, they are setting precedent for a process that will last decades.
It is she, more than Max Baucus or any other Senate centrist, who will probably decide whether a filibuster-proof bill can be negotiated during the next few weeks, or whether, in the alternative, the White House must push through a reform using the more controversial (but entirely legal and amply with precedent) budget-resolution process, which skirts the senate's filibuster rules.
The Citizens United decision has unlocked the floodgates for big corporate and union spending and overturned a century of laws and decades of legal precedent in the process.
The incident set an important precedent as the process of impeachment would later be used against Charles and his supporters: the Duke of Buckingham, Archbishop Laud, and the Earl of Strafford.
The strongly hydrophobic nature of EpsH family proteins seems more reminiscent of transporters than of proteases, but there is abundant precedent for protein sorting processes that depend on proteolytic cleavage and other processing by highly hydrophobic proteins.
