Conley Rose

On June 28, 2010, the Supreme Court decided Bilski v. Kappos, No. 08-964, holding that a patent Applicants claims were merely directed to an abstract idea and thus not patent eligible under 35 U. S. C, 101. Bilski and Warsaw filed a patent application with claims directed toward a method for hedging risk in the area of commodities trading. The Examiner rejected the claims under 35 U. S. C, 101 as not being directed to patent eligible subject matter because the invention was not implemented on a specific apparatus and merely manipulated an abstract idea which solves a purely mathematical problem.