Case: 24-2040 Document: 14 Page: 1 Filed: 01/13/2025

NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________ In Re MEDTRONIC, INC., Appellant ______________________ 2024-2040 ______________________ Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in No. 16/436,012. ______________________ ON MOTION ______________________ Before DYK, CUNNINGHAM, and STARK, Circuit Judges.

CUNNINGHAM, Circuit Judge.

ORDER Medtronic, Inc. appeals from a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirming the examiner’s rejection of certain patent application claims as patent ineligible un- der 35 U.S.C. § 101. The Director of the United States Pa- tent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) now states that the claims “should not have been rejected as patent ineligible,” ECF No. 12 at 3, and moves unopposed to waive the re- quirements of Federal Circuit Rule 27(f), to vacate the Board’s decision, and to remand the case “to allow the Case: 24-2040 Document: 14 Page: 2 Filed: 01/13/2025

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agency to withdraw the pending patent eligibility rejec- tions,” id. 1 Upon consideration thereof, IT IS ORDERED THAT: (1) The motion is granted. The Board’s decision is va- cated, and the case is remanded to the PTO for further con- sideration consistent with the motion and this order. (2) Each side shall bear its own costs.

FOR THE COURT

January 13, 2025 Date ISSUED AS A MANDATE: January 13, 2025

1 After the motion was filed, the Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office was sub- stituted as the appellee in this case.