USPTO Releases New Guidance on 35 U.S.C. § 101 and 35 U.S.C. § 112

After months of indications from various levels of the USPTO that new examination guidelines were in the works, the USPTO has issued two new sets of guidance for examining applications. The first is related to subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The second is related to examining computer-implemented functional claims under 35 U.S.C. [...]