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Mental Steps Override Novelty in Patent-Eligibility Analysis
The Federal Circuit has upheld the patent-ineligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 of all claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,614,710, directed to “a method for deriving a pixel color in a graphic image.” Coffelt v. NVIDIA Corp., No. 2017-1119 (Fed. Cir. March 15, 2017) (per curiam and non-precedential; panel was Chief Judge Prost and Judges Bryson and Wallach). Although the...