Federal Circuit Reverses California Federal Judge’s Patent Ineligibility Holding

Mealey's (March 18, 2019, 1:40 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A divided panel of the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 15 found that various claims of six patents relating to the amino acid beta-alanine were erroneously deemed ineligible for patenting by a California federal judge (Natural Alternatives International Inc. v. Creative Compounds LLC, No. 18-1295, Fed. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 7647)....