{"id":914,"date":"2018-01-18T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T21:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.142.118\/?p=914"},"modified":"2019-06-03T16:48:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T21:48:54","slug":"uspto-updates-section-101-subject-matter-eligibility-judicial-decisions-references","status":"publish","type":"ip_blog","link":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/ip_blog\/uspto-updates-section-101-subject-matter-eligibility-judicial-decisions-references\/","title":{"rendered":"USPTO UPDATES SECTION 101 &#8220;SUBJECT MATTER ELIGIBILITY&#8221; JUDICIAL DECISIONS REFERENCES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may be aware that the USPTO has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/patent\/laws-and-regulations\/examination-policy\/subject-matter-eligibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>\u201cSubject Matter Eligibility\u201d webpage<\/strong><\/a> with links to resources regarding how patent examiners are to evaluate claims for patent subject matter eligibility under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/35\/101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>35 U.S.C. \u00a7 101<\/strong><\/a>. This month, the USPTO updated their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/ieg-qrs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>\u201cQuick Reference\u201d sheet<\/strong><\/a> of Federal Circuit and Supreme Court \u201cdecisions holding claims eligible and identifying abstract ideas,\u201d as well as their chart of subject matter eligibility court decisions (downloadable from the main Subject Matter Eligibility webpage), which was previously referred to as \u201cAppendix 3.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Reference sheet organizes the cases by \u201ctype\u201d of abstract idea as well as summarizing cases by whether the claims were found to be eligible in Step 2A (i.e., the claim was not directed to a judicial exception) or found eligible in Step 2B (i.e., the claim as a whole amounts to \u201csignificantly more\u201d than the judicial exception). The chart provides a concise summary of cases, citations, patent numbers, claim types, judicial conclusion, and whether the case is precedential or not. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may be aware that the USPTO has a \u201cSubject Matter Eligibility\u201d webpage with links to resources regarding how patent examiners are to evaluate claims for patent subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 101. This month, the USPTO updated their \u201cQuick Reference\u201d sheet of Federal Circuit and Supreme Court \u201cdecisions holding claims eligible and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","categories":[22],"ip_tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ip_blog\/914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ip_blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ip_blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ip_blog\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"ip_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ip_tags?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}