U.S. COURT OF APPEALS-FEDERAL CIRCUIT ISSUES OPINIONS ON ORVILLE K. THOMAS V/S DENIS MCDONOUGH CASE

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued the following order on March 27:

Max A. Rady appeals an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissing his patent infringement claim after concluding that his asserted patent claimed ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. section 101. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Rady owns U.S. Patent No. 10,469,250 (the "'250 patent"), which is directed to "a framework [for] record[ing] to a blockchain" the "unique identification[s] (signatures) of physical items which have unique, random properties." '250 patent, Abstract. The claimed invention involves scanning a physical item, such as a gemstone...