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CAFC Affirms PTAB’s Rejection of Patent Application as Abstract

March 19, 2021

Authored and Edited by Eric S Magleby; Christina Ji-Hye Yang; Esther H. Lim; Elizabeth D. Ferrill

In the recent Federal Circuit decision, In re Bd. of Trs. of the Leland Stanford Junior Univ., No. 2020-1012 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 11, 2021), the Court affirmed another PTAB rejection of a patent application under 35 U.S.C. § 101. For a more detailed analysis of this case, please see the full post on Finnegan’s Federal Circuit IP Blog.

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  • In re Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

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