Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB)
rejection of a patent application that described a method for
weight loss that "removes hunger from weight loss." The
representative patent claim recites:
A process wherein, on day one,
you--which stands for a user of the process--cut your food intake
during all three regular meals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, by
1/3 and keep it that way for 3 months, and follow the how-to-eat
rules:
(1) no food unless you are
hungry, or it is your regular mealtime, breakfast, lunch, or
dinner,
(2) if you are hungry and it is
not your regular mealtime, you drink a glass of water, first, and
wait 10-15 minutes; if you are still hungry, then you eat a snack,
and
