As many of my readers noticed, I didn't publish any of my own blogs in January and February. As it turned out, I suffered from a peculiar form of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), what I would call SMIAD: Subject Matter Ineligible Affective Disorder. The unrelenting rains here in San Francisco, a similar torrent of Section 101 rejections from the USPTO, and an uptick in the rate of court decisions invalidating patents, converged to put me in a dour and de-inspired mood. With the return of the sun and some interesting decisions from the Federal Circuit, it's time to get back to tracking AliceStorm.

First, an update on the overall AliceStorm numbers, through the end of February, 2017:

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