Travel Sentry, Inc. v. Tropp, No. 21-1908 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 14, 2022)

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These two patent cases involve David Tropp’s U.S. Pa- tent Nos. 7,021,537 and 7,036,728. The district court granted summary judgment against Mr. Tropp on the ground that all the at -issue claims of those patents —of which the parties agree claim 1 of the ’537 patent is repre- sentative—are invalid because they claim ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Travel Sentry, Inc. v. Tropp, 527 F. Supp. 3d 256, 259 (E.D.N.Y. 2021). Mr. Tropp ap- peals. We affirm. The district court correctly held representative claim 1 ineligible.