Federal Circuit: Method For Tipping During Media Viewing Is Patent Ineligible

( September 11, 2024, 8:53 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) did not err in finding that a method and system for eliciting and receiving tips during media consumption was directed at an abstract idea because the idea is simply a method of organizing human economic activity, a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found in affirming the PTAB’s decision on Sept. 10....