Link to NYTimes

It seems to be in the vein of a "business method" patent, an application of statistical sampling to evaluating experience of a life insurance policy. I take at face value the notion that this actually was a streamlining of work previously done using the entire data set, but it seems the sort of patent grant that is jeopardized by SCOTUS in Mayo v. Prometheus and its subsequent rulings in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics and Kappos v. Hyatt.

In other words if there is no protectable element of the claimed invention beyond the abstract ideas of statistical sampling, then this grant (from Feb./March of 2012) would be invalidated by the courts.

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