Fresh From the Bench: Latest Federal Circuit Court Cases

CASE OF THE WEEK

In Re: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Appeal No. 2020-1288 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 25, 2021)

The Federal Circuit issued only one precedential decision this week—a companion case from a decision we wrote about two weeks ago concerning ineligible subject matter. In that prior case, the Court affirmed the Board’s conclusion that claims drawn to statistical methods of predicting haplotype phase are directed to patent ineligible subject matter. Our write-up of that decision can be found here.