PTAB § 101 Affirmance Rates Dip under Director Squires

For the fifth consecutive year, we have surveyed how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decides appeals of § 101 rejections from examiners.  Readers of the previous installments will know the drill by now.  Applicants who appeal a subject matter eligibility rejection to the PTAB have historically faced odds somewhere between long and laughable.  The affirmance rate was……
By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP