The U.S. Government made algorithms patentable, forming the basis of software patents. For example, states that "programs for computers as such" are not regarded as patentable inventions. Novelty is requirement for a patent claim to be patentable. Novelty is a requirement for a patent claim to be patentable. Instead, it requires that to be patentable an invention must have industrial applicability. An opinion as to whether an invention might be patentable. Whether a business method is regarded as patentable subject matter depends on the legal jurisdiction. An invention satisfying these requirements is said to be patentable. Namely, an invention must notably have a technical character to be patentable. The invention must concern patentable subject matter (section 101). Material not so excluded is known as patentable subject matter. It also assets successful commercialization of patentable matter. However practical applications of algorithms are sometimes patentable. Myriad argued that their diagnostic tests were patentable subject matter. This ruling set the precedent for animate material as patentable subject matter.