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Wednesday, March 17, 2021 In an appeal from a final rejection of a pending application, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that claims directed to methods for determining “haplotype phase” were correctly rejected under 35 USC § 101 as subject matter ineligible.  In Re Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University, Case No. 20-1012 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 11, 2021) (Reyna, J.) Haplotype phase is a scientific way of describing the methodology of determining from which parent a particular allele (or gene) is inherited. The representative claim involved (i) ...

Friday, February 26, 2021 In  cxLoyalty, Inc. v. Maritz Holdings Inc., Nos. 2020-1307, 1309 (February 8, 2021), the Federal Circuit found both original and substitute claims in a covered business method review ineligible for patent protection under 35 U.S.C. § 101. cxLoyalty filed a petition for covered business method review, challenging claims 1–15 of U.S. Patent No. 7,134,087, owned by Maritz. The ’087 patent claimed a system and method that automates the process of redeeming credit card loyalty points for rewards. Instead of requiring human participation, as in traditiona...