The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday partially reversed and partially vacated a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) ruling that rejected a pro se applicant’s patent application claims as patent ineligible and indefinite. Brian McFadden appealed the PTAB’s decision holding his U.S. Patent Application No. 16/231,749 unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. §§ 101 and 112. The application relates to improvements for information exchange in social media networks and specifically claims a “system and methods for controlling and optimizing information distribution between users in an information exchange.”

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