Inventors Tell Federal Circuit Section 101 Rejection Was Error

Mealey's (November 3, 2017, 7:44 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In rejecting two claims in an application to patent a method for quick delivery of home values estimations via computer, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board made “a number of legal mistakes,” including “conflating” the two steps for patent eligibility set forth in Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, 573 U.S. __ (2014), two inventors tell the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an Oct. 27 reply brief (Mario Villena, et al., v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, No. 17-2069, Fed. Cir.)....