(January 4, 2018, 10:57 AM EST) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A September 2017 decision that affirmed an examiner’s rejection of 32 claims of a social networking system patent application on grounds of ineligibility under Section 101 of the Patent Act, 35 U.S.C. § 10, will not be revisited, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board announced Dec. 18 (Ex parte John Hegeman, et al., No. 2016-004317, PTAB)....