Case: Patents/Eligibility (Fed. Cir.)

The Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s affirmation of an examiner’s rejection of a claim of a patent directed toward methods and apparatuses useful for operating, regulating, and controlling such an information exchange as directed to ineligible subject matter. The court said that the patent claim is directed to advertising, sales, and marketing activity, or at least the close corollary of packaging and presenting information, which is an abstract idea covering certain methods of organizing human activity, isn’t directed toward a specialized computer system or an improvement in technology, and contains no additional elements or combinations of ...