By Kevin E. Noonan — The Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) rejecting claims for failure to satisfy the subject matter eligibility standard under 35 U.S.C. § 101, in ex parte examination of claims to methods and related computing systems for genetic haplotyping in In re Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. The claimed method is recited in representative claim 1: 1. A method for resolving haplotype phase, comprising: receiving allele data describing allele information regarding genotypes for a family comprising at least a mother,…
