Gift Recommender Patent Application Properly Rejected, Panel Says

Mealey's (May 14, 2020, 9:38 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 12 agreed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that a system and method for recommending gifts by tracking the social network activity of the gift recipient would have been obvious to a person of skill in the art (In re:  Jagadeshwar Reddy Nomula, Nos. 2019-1832, -1833, Fed. Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 15159)....