From the article: “Basically, the 2019 revised g

From the article: “Basically, the 2019 revised guidance represents a swing of the pendulum in the pro-patent direction, that will counteract the preceding anti-patent swing culminating in the Alice case in 2014. This continues a pro-patent trend that the PTO began in the spring of 2018 with the issuance of the Berkheimer memo. Indeed, early statistics indicate that since the Berkheimer memo was issued, allowance rates at some art units, particularly for software, have gone up. We can expect this pro-patent trend to continue, partly because of a shift in the national discussion about patent law, from a focus on patent trolls to a focus on the protection of U.S. innovation in a competitive global economy.”