While studying for his patent law exam, Georgia State University Law School student William Florkowski said he was about as prepared to define claims "directed to or encompassing a human organism" on a test as he was to predict how he would feel several days into the future.

Luckily for him, Yaniv Heled, Florkowski’s professor, couldn’t really define it either. Heled said so at a panel discussion on the America Invents Act, which both the second-year student and his teacher attended in early April.