Comments on Interim Guidance for Determining Subject Matter Eligibility for Process Claims in View of Bilski v. Kappos

On or prior to October 18, 2010, the organizations and persons listed below have submitted comments in response to Interim Guidance for Determining Subject Matter Eligibility for Process Claims in View of Bilski v. Kappos, first published in the Federal Register at 75 Fed. Reg. 43922 (July 27, 2010).

It is hoped that the public will review this list of comments submitted on or prior to October 18, 2010, to determine if it is complete. If any person or organization has submitted a comment on or prior to October 18, 2010, but it is not included in this listing, please resubmit the comment by electronic mail message to Bilski_Guidance@uspto.gov, or contact Caroline D. Dennison by telephone at (571) 272-7729.

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A. Intellectual Property Organizations and Government Agencies

1. ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law
2. AIPLA
3. IPO
4. JIPA
5. New York Law Schools' Center for Patent Innovations

B. Corporations and Associations

1. Accenture
2. IBM Corporation
3. Intellectual Ventures, LLC
4. Microsoft
5. Red Hat

C. Law Firms

D. Individuals

1. Aaron
2. Harm Aarts
3. Martin Aavik
4. David Adams
5. Kirk Aebersold
6. Ahasiuk
7. Aaron Alai
8. Clay Alberty
9. Hilary Albutt
10. Julie Alessio
11. Alexander
12. Charles Alexander
13. Jason Alexander
14. Brad Allen
15. Bryan Allen
16. Jamie Allen
17. Erik B. Andersen
18. Chris Anderson
19. Stephan F. Andre'
20. C. Scott Andreas
21. Anothergmale
22. Brian Armstrong
23. Ric Armstrong
24. Kris Arnold
25. Stephen L. Arnold
26. Shawn Asamato-Brown
27. Scott Ashman
28. Bill Atchison
29. Shai Azoulai
30. James Babcock
31. Elizabeth Bacon
32. Ellen Badinelli
33. William Baer
34. Reinier B. Bakels, PhD
35. Nathan Baker
36. Michael Ball
37. Richard Ballantyne
38. David Barnard
39. Derek Barnett
40. Joshua Barney
41. David Barrett
42. Daniel Bartholomew
43. Ben Baston
44. Alfred Reinold Baudisch
45. Hilary Baumann
46. Keith Baumwald
47. Eric Bavier
48. Roberto J. Bayardo PhD
49. Bruce Beare
50. Gregory Beaver
51. Eric Beland
52. Henrik Bennetsen
53. Trevor Bentley
54. Paul Bergeron
55. Jess Bermudes
56. Karl Berry
57. Aditya Bhargava
58. Joseph Bironas
59. Eric Black
60. Eric Blake
61. Luke Blanshard
62. Joe Blossom
63. John Bohumil
64. Andy Bolstridge
65. Timothy Bolz
66. Brian Bonner
67. Ben Bordwell
68. Jonah Bossewitch
69. Jonas Bosson
70. Kyler Bourgeous
71. Mike Bourgeous
72. Matthew R. Bowen
73. Grant Bowman
74. Scott Boyd
75. Tom Brander
76. Mike Bravo
77. Tim Bray
78. Kenneth Breeman
79. Jimmy Brokaw
80. Charles Brown
81. Dallas Brown
82. Vicki Brown
83. David Bruce, M.D.
84. Alex Brugh
85. Jonathan Bryan
86. Jason L. Buberel
87. Kelly Buchanan
88. Matthew Buck
89. Philip Budne
90. Chuck Burgess
91. Chris Burke
92. Thomas R. Burke
93. Nathanael Burton
94. Kevin Butler
95. Matt Butner
96. John Button
97. Tom Cahalan
98. Douglas Calobrisi
99. Dwight Calwhite
100. Jim Campbell
101. Sheldon L. Campbell
102. David Cann
103. Andrew Cantino
104. Chris Caputo
105. Pete Carapetyan
106. Aret Carlsen
107. Bob Carlson
108. Brian D. Carlstrom
109. David Carlton
110. James Jeremiah Carman
111. Terry Carmen
112. Michael Carrano
113. Alejandro Castillo
114. Mark Caudill
115. Marcus Cavanaugh
116. cbc0777
117. Ross Centers
118. Chris Cera
119. Saikat Chakrabarti
120. William Chan
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125. Michael Chelen
126. Joshua Chia
127. M. Chira
128. John Cisar
129. Citbresearch2
130. Michael L. Clark
131. Miles Clark
132. Roland Lee Clark II
133. Ian Clarke
134. Zach Coelius
135. Jeremiah Cohick
136. Sean Coleman
137. David Combs
138. Tim Connor
139. Giff Constable III
140. Kyle R. Conway
141. Allen Cook
142. Gordon Cooke
143. Jason Cooksey
144. Joe Cooper
145. Travis Cooper
146. Stephen Corona
147. Patrick H. Corrigan
148. Cory
149. Rick Crawford
150. John Cromartie
151. Phil Crooker
152. Linn Crosetto
153. Richard Crowley
154. Justin Cummins
155. Erik Cunningham
156. Colin Curtin
157. Ryan Curtis
158. Matt Cutts
159. Dagus
160. Jon Dahl
161. Kevin Dahlhausen
162. Chris Dalton
163. Thomas Dalton
164. Lars Damerow
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166. Matthew L. Daniel
167. Joel Dare
168. Bill Daul
169. Mike Davis
170. Mike Daymon
171. John R. Deal Jr.
172. Vicente C. de Baca
173. Ian Dees
174. Ralph M. deGennaro
175. Seth Delackner
176. Elijah Delventhal
177. Eric DeMenthon
178. Sean DeNigris
179. Aaron Denney
180. John DesJardins
181. Brian Deterling
182. Matthieu Devin
183. Dustin M. DeWeese
184. Michael Dexter
185. Patrick Dickey
186. Violet Bliss Dietz
187. Toby DiPasquale
188. Justin Doiel
189. Peter A. Donis
190. Michael Donohoe
191. Alex Dorey
192. Corey Downing
193. Dan Downs
194. Scott Draves, PhD
195. Brian Drupieski
196. Marcus DuFrane
197. James Durrell
198. Thomas Durso
199. Sanford Duryee
200. Zack Dwiel
201. Samuel H. Dworetsky
202. Noah Dyer
203. Mike Ebert
204. Sean Eby
205. Nate Edel
206. J. Scott Edwards
207. Matt Elliott
208. Tim Elliott
209. Martin Emde
210. Lucas Endres
211. Drew Engelbrecht
212. Chris Erickson
213. Evan Eusey
214. Chris Evich
215. Terra Ezeri
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218. Chuck Falzone
219. Peter J. Farrell
220. Susan Farrell
221. Troy Farrell
222. Dr. William M. Fawley
223. Jeff Federman
224. Adam Feldman
225. Enedino Fernandez
226. Bruce Ferrell
227. John Fiala
228. Adrienne Fichtner
229. Miles R. Fidelman
230. Nathan Fiedler
231. Timothy Finley
232. Nick Fitzgerald
233. Brad Fitzpatrick
234. Daniel J. Fitzpatrick
235. Ian Flanigan
236. Matthew Flaschen
237. Avi Flax
238. Benito Flores
239. Timothy G. Flynn
240. Tony Ford
241. James Frandsen
242. Brian Frank
243. George Frank
244. Phil Freo, Jr.
245. Hunter Freyer
246. Richard Freytag
247. Ben Friedman
248. Rob Friedman
249. Erich B. Friesen
250. Kenneth G. Fuchs
251. Ben Galbraith
252. Tom Gallagher
253. Ron Garret, PhD
254. Eric Garrido
255. Nicholas A. Gasper
256. Gregory Gerard
257. Byron Gibson
258. Dj Gilcrease
259. Elliot Glaysher
260. Martin Goetz
261. Yaron Y. Goland
262. Ken Goldsholl
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265. John Gonzalez
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267. Grant Gordon
268. Jerry Gosney
269. Trevor Grandle
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271. Lawrence Greenfield
272. Jack Griffin
273. Kurt Griffiths
274. Rytis Grybauskas
275. S.R. Guenter
276. Jorge Guevara
277. Brian Gupta
278. Gus3
279. Rob Haag
280. Paul Haahr
281. Bob Hagemann
282. Peter Hajas
283. Jack E. Haken
284. Jon Hale
285. Walker Hale
286. Larry Hamel
287. Jamie Hamilton
288. Sean Hammons
289. Don Hardaway, PhD.
290. John Harlien III
291. Kevin Harness
292. Kurt Harriger
293. Chad Harrington
294. Jeffrey Harris
295. Matt Harrison
296. David Hauser
297. Matt Havener
298. Peter Havens
299. Brandon Haynes
300. Kirsten Hazard
301. Nicholas Hebb
302. Stuart Heinrich
303. Alison Heittman
304. Rob Heittman
305. Jessica Henline
306. Dennis S. Hennen
307. Eric Kennedy Herman
308. Brendan Hickey
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310. Will Hill
311. Rich Hilliard
312. Mark Hochstein
313. Moses Hohman
314. Steve Holden
315. David S. Holland
316. Dennis Hollarn II
317. Shane Holloway
318. Timothy E. Holy
319. Keith Hopkins
320. Scott Horwath
321. Barnabas Howard
322. Walt J. Hucks
323. Steven E. Hugg
324. Adrian P. Hull, PhD
325. Edwin Hunt
326. Max Hyre
327. Ian
328. Paul J
329. Andrew Jackman
330. Aubrey Jaffer
331. Sumeet Jain
332. Brad Jasper
333. Monroe Edwin Jeffrey
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336. Jon Jensen
337. Sean Jensen-Grey
338. Jason Jobe
339. John
340. Eric E. Johnson
341. Mike Johnson
342. Vaughan Johnson
343. Caleb Johnston
344. Andrew Jones
345. Brian Jones
346. Patrik Jonsson
347. Jim Kahn
348. Kurt B. Kaiser
349. Peter Kananen
350. Nilesh D. Kapadia
351. Jason Katzer
352. James Kauzlarich
353. Alan Keefer
354. Mike Kelley
355. Michael Kelly
356. James Kelso
357. Brian Kennedy
358. Hugh Kennedy
359. Patrick Kettner
360. Travis Kiefer
361. Robert Kieffer
362. David Kinder
363. Austin King
364. Bryan J. Kirch
365. Thomas Kirchner
366. Aaron Klemm
367. Jerome Knapp
368. Jonathan Knezek
369. David Koontz
370. Jonathan Koren
371. Mahendra Kothari
372. James Koval
373. Ken Kovar
374. Ryan Kowalick
375. Matt Kraai
376. Peter J. Kraljic
377. Peter Krenesky
378. Corey T Kump
379. Nathan Kurz
380. Blaine LaFreniere
381. Olivier Lalonde
382. Bill Landers
383. Dario Laverde
384. Richard Lawler
385. Richard Lawrence
386. Allen Lee
387. Brian Lee
388. Justin Lee
389. Gurdy Leete
390. Jen Leibhart
391. William Leler PhD
392. Florian Lengyel, PhD
393. Kieran Levin
394. Nir Levy
395. Chris Ley
396. Jeffrey A. Libert
397. Pol M Llovet
398. Tom Longson
399. Jose Lorenzo
400. Frank Lortscher
401. Merrick Lozano
402. Ken Luczkiewicz
403. Michael Ludwig
404. Erik Lund
405. Zac Luzader
406. Brian Lyttle
407. Dan Maas
408. William MacGhee
409. Craig MacKay
410. Frank Maker
411. Nathaniel Manista
412. Vincent Marquez
413. Nick Marsh
414. Ted Masters
415. Joseph Mastey
416. Alec Matusis
417. Jonathan Max-Sohmer
418. Justin Mayer
419. Dominic Mazzoni
420. Joshua McAdams
421. Gabe McArthur
422. Aaron McBride
423. Neal McBurnett
424. Gary McCampbell
425. Jason McCampbell
426. Paul S. McCarthy
427. Sean McCleary
428. Mark McCormick
429. Tim McCune
430. Kevin McFadden
431. Jay McGavren
432. Matt McGinnis
433. Gregory McKeever
434. Evan Meagher
435. Ray Meiers
436. Noah Mendelsohn
437. Paul E. Merrell
438. M.R. Mikkilineni
439. Jackson Miller
440. Peter Miller
441. Stephen E. Miner
442. Justin Miramontes
443. Jed Mitten
444. Abel Mohler
445. Christian Monsieur
446. Daniel Montalvo
447. Luis Montealegre
448. Sean Scot August Moon
449. Hugh Morgenbesser
450. Rich Morin
451. Ben Morris
452. Roberta J. Morris
453. Mia Movray
454. Hasan Muhammad
455. Partha Pratim Mukherjee
456. Ward Mundy
457. John Murray, PhD
458. Stuart Myles
459. John Nagle
460. Andre Navarro
461. Philip Nelson
462. Russ Nelson
463. Burke Nersesian
464. Sam Neubardt
465. Matthew Newell
466. J.B. Nicholson-Owens
467. Evan Niessen-Derry
468. Miles Nordin
469. Ken Norton
470. Norwoods
471. Jason Novek
472. Michael Nussbaum
473. Michael Nuzzo
474. Reed O'Brien
475. Kris Occhipinti
476. Paul O'Day
477. David Odell
478. Stephen O'Grady
479. Nathan Oleson
480. Greg Olsen
481. Gary Olson
482. LT Niels Olson
483. Ben Orenstein
484. Ciaran O'Riordan
485. Daniel Orofino
486. Robert L. Paddock
487. John W. Palmieri
488. Colin Pantell
489. John Pappas
490. Efthimios Parasidas
491. Scott R. Parish
492. Alex Parkinson
493. Todd Pasanen
494. Derek Payton
495. Akkana Peck
496. Michael Pederson
497. Liliana Perez
498. Charles Perry
499. Dennis Peterson
500. Ryan Phillips
501. Benjamin C. Pierce
502. Fernando Pino
503. Alan Pinstein
504. James Pirruccello
505. Kurt Ploeger
506. Scott Plummer
507. Ben Poliakoff
508. Douglas Pope
509. Sam Post
510. Tom Preston-Werner
511. Larry Price
512. Matt T. Proud
513. Marasoiu Marian Puiu
514. Jeffrey Putnam
515. Kelly A. Putnam
516. Skye Quarto
517. Daniel Quelhorst
518. Raymond Racine
519. Andrew Radford
520. Brian Radmin
521. Daniel Raffel
522. Brian Rak
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524. Shishir Ramam
525. Paul R. Ramer
526. Scott R. Randby
527. Pandu Rao
528. Cody A. Ray
529. Marsh Ray
530. Sean Ray
531. Dan Reese
532. Shaun Reich
533. Alex Reuman
534. Stephen Revilak
535. Peter Rexer
536. Andrew Richards
537. Mike Richards
538. John L. Ries
539. Matthieu Riou
540. Dr. Jose M. Ripalda
541. Tim Ritchey
542. Scott Ritchie
543. Jason Rivard
544. J.S. Roberts
545. Bill Robertson
546. Seth A. Roby
547. Jose R. Rodriguez
548. R. Roe
549. Jacob Roeland
550. Nevada Romsdahl
551. Casey Rosenthal
552. Rick Ross
553. Aric Rothfus
554. Jeremy Rothman-Shore
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556. Brandon Runyon
557. William Ruppert
558. James C. Ruska
559. Brian Russell
560. Todd Russell
561. Tom Russell
562. Shawn Rutledge
563. Justin Alan Ryan
564. Greg Sabo
565. Jason Sackett
566. Adam Sah
567. Tim Sally
568. Billy Sanders
569. Keith Sanders
570. Tony Schmidt
571. Ray Schmitz
572. Scott Schnaars
573. Joe Schottman
574. Eric C. Schug
575. Eric Schulte
576. Eric Schultz
577. Michael Schurter
578. Pete Schwamb
579. Michael Scudder
580. Ryan Seeber
581. Kirby Seitz
582. Stephen Jacob Sekula
583. Jason Self
584. Ken Settle
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587. Andy Sheehan
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589. C. Andrew Shepp
590. Shogun79
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598. Chris Smith
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602. Roland K. Smith
603. Victoria Spagnolo
604. Parnell Springmeyer
605. Joey Stanford
606. Donavan Stanley
607. Michael Steffan
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609. Eric Stein
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613. Stephen Stokols
614. Adrian Stovall
615. Mark Stringer
616. James T. Strosser
617. David Strubbe
618. Kenneth Stults
619. Yasir Suhail
620. Peter Kwangjun Suk
621. Jay Sulzberger
622. Olle & Susan
623. Bradley Swain
624. Mark W. Swartwout
625. Takumi
626. Ian Taylor
627. Jose Tee
628. Ben Teitelbaum
629. Matthew Terenzio
630. Maxwell Terry
631. Jason Tholstrup
632. M.Thomas
633. Matt Thomas
634. Anthony R. Thompson
635. Gary Tong
636. Michael Trout
637. Ed Trujillo
638. Daniel Tunkelang
639. David Turner
640. Greg Turnquist
641. Michael Twentyman
642. Noah Tye
643. Jarin Udom
644. Jared Updike
645. Daniel P. Valentine
646. Nathan Van Gheem
647. David Vanderson
648. Shannon VanWagner
649. Shannon VanWagner
650. Michael VanZant
651. Abhay Vardhan
652. Sridhar Vembu
653. Jerome Verstrynge
654. Susan Victor-McCarthy
655. Vishi
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657. David Vydra
658. Richard J. Walker
659. Eric W. Wallace
660. Norman Walsh
661. Kurt Ward
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663. Greg Weber
664. Joel N. Weber II
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666. David Weinraub
667. Nick Wesselman
668. Amanda West & Nicolas Kassis
669. David A. Wheeler
670. Paul Wheeler
671. Ian White
672. Travis Whitlock
673. Mike Wiacek
674. Kyle Wiens
675. David Wilemski
676. Mike Wilkens
677. Benjamin Williams
678. David Williams
679. Joe Williams
680. Ben Wing
681. John P. Withers
682. David Wolfe
683. Scott Wolpow
684. Brian Wong
685. Matthew Woodward
686. Christian Wright
687. Michael A. Wright
688. John Wyatt
689. Jeffrey Yang
690. Steve Yelvington
691. Ed Young
692. Nicholas Young
693. Brendan Younger
694. Zev Youra
695. Kenneth W. Zahorec
696. Daniel Zwell