Posts Tagged: "In re Rudy"

On  April 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) upheld a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision in In re: Rudy affirming an examiner’s rejection of a patent claim directed to “a method for fishing” as ineligible for patenting under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The CAFC concluded that the claim merely recited abstract, mental processes relating to data collection or analysis that were not eligible for patent protection.