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by monochromatic 3912 days ago
In a post-Alice world, anyway. Pre-Alice, patentable subject matter and nonobviousness were separate requirements.
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I'm not familiar with Alice. As far as I know, you're right, non-obviousness is different than patentable subject matter. Sorry to elide them together like that.

I never claimed to be patent lawyer.

Not a problem, you did just as well as the U.S. Supreme Court. (Alice is a mess in my opinion, if you couldn't tell--it mixes two requirements that were supposed to completely separate.)