1) Dimminaco A.G filed a patent application for a process to prepare a bursitis vaccine containing a living virus. The patent application was rejected on grounds that it did not constitute an "invention" under the Patent Act. 2) The key issues before the Court were whether a process producing an end product with a living organism can be patentable, and if the claimed process would constitute a "manner of manufacture". 3) The Court held that there is no bar to patenting such processes. Since the claimed process was a novel method of vaccine preparation involving defined chemical steps, it was a patentable "manner of manufacture" under the Act.