(January 16, 2018, 4:50 PM EST) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board in a Jan. 16 final written decision sided with a petitioner for covered business method (CBM) review, agreeing that five claims of a method for communicating information from remote sites to a central location are directed to the abstract idea of “establishing a communications route between two points to relay information” (Emerson Electric Company v. Sipco LLC, No. CBM2016-00095, PTAB)....