On May 13, 2013, the Patent Office issued a memo to USPTO examiners after the CLS Bank et al. v. Alice Corp. Federal Circuit en banc decision of last week. The memo instructs examiners to maintain existing examination procedure for evaluating subject matter patentability. Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, Andrew Hirshfeld, advised examiners: ” […]
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