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inlawrev-23215	McCusker, Kevin T.	The Patentability of Signal-Carrying Media	2021	23	.pdf	application/pdf	11020	570	55	However, even if Nuijten established a rule that an article of manufacture must be non-transitory, a tangible medium carrying transitory signals would be patentable subject matter. The Federal Circuit held that a signal per se—as opposed to a device or method for making a signal—was not eligible for patent protection because it did not fall into any of the four statutory categories of invention.7 Since Nuijten, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) does not allow patents to issue that cover signals in transmission, such * J.D. Candidate, 2019, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law; B.S. in Physics, B.S. in Computer Engineering, 2006, University of Notre Dame; M.S. in Physics, 2008, Ph.D. in Physics, 2012, University of Illinois; registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.	cache/inlawrev-23215.pdf	txt/inlawrev-23215.txt