Managing tipping payments is an administrative problem, not a technological problem


by Dennis Crouch

This is the third eligibility post in as many days.  In a non-precedential decision issued September 10, 2024, the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s rejection of claims in a patent application directed to eliciting tips for media content — finding them ineligible. In re McDonald, No. 24-1015 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 10, 2024).

The applicant here is a Utah s،-up VidAngel, Inc., that helps folks “Filter out the stuff you don’t want to see or hear in your streaming movies & TV s،ws, like profanity, ،, violence & more.  But, the invention here has a different focus – it is a setup for eliciting and receiving tips from consumers of media content like streaming movies.

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