USPTO Welcomes Back Software Innovations with its New 101 Guidelines.

The new guidelines are very favorable to patent applicants. In my practice, I am seeing many Examiners withdrawing their 101 rejections. It appears that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is following suit and increasingly reversing previously issued 101 rejections based on the new guidelines. I believe this trend will continue and we will see an easier and a more predictable path toward allowance for software innovations. There was much need for clarity in dealing with 101 issues and it appears that clarity has finally arrived.