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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 un-patentable.