USPS Gets PTAB To Eye Return Mail Patent As Abstract

By Vin Gurrieri ( October 17, 2014, 7:39 PM EDT) -- The U. S. Patent and Trademark Office's patent appeal board on Thursday agreed to institute an America Invents Act review of a patent covering a system for handling dead letters, finding that the U. S. Postal Service had shown a reasonable likelihood that the patent covers only an abstract idea. . . .

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