In re Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Claims directed to a mathematical algorithms and mental processes without recitations of how they are applied are unpatentable under Section 101.
Claims directed to a mathematical algorithms and mental processes without recitations of how they are applied are unpatentable under Section 101.
Criteria for determining whether prior art is analogous may be summarized as “(1) whether the art is from the same field of endeavor, regardless of the problem addressed, and (2) if the reference is not within the field of the inventor’s endeavor, whether the reference still is reasonably pertinent to the particular problem with which the inventor is involved.”