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The USPTO 101 Guidance document has been under a cloud when
Judge Brinkema refused to follow the guidance in
Cleveland
Clinic Found. V. True Health Diagnostics LLC., affirmed
at 760 F. App'x. 1013, 1020 (Fed. Cir. 2019). In Cleveland
Clinic relied on Guidance example 29, claim 1 to assert that its
claims were patent eligible since they were drafted in the same
manner. The Federal Circuit in rejecting the argument found the 101
Guidance example 29, claim 1 to be “strikingly” similar
to claim 1, see760 F. App'x. at 1020, which the Federal Circuit
held was patent ineligible. The guidance teaches that example 29,