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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
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.
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
Subject area
Economic Activity (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, October 12, 2021 · Certiorari denied
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)