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Sarada Mohapatra v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2020-1935 · judgment February 5, 2021
Certiorari denied · October 12, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether computer-based process improvement patent applications for inventions by Citizen Inventors - characterized by narrow and well-defined practical solutions to clearly identified actual/existing problems which do not preempt any future inventions - be deemed abstract in Alice /Mayo analysis for patent eligibility.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Sarada Mohapatra
For respondent
Brian H. Fletcher
Acting Solicitor General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 12 2021Petition DENIED.
- Sep 15 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/8/2021.
- Sep 13 2021Waiver of right of respondent Drew Hirshfeld to respond filed.
- Aug 31 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 8, 2021)