The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said in a recent decision that the U.S. Supreme Court's handling of questions of patent eligibility has made the question unduly difficult, but the Federal Circuit's Judge Alan Lourie is hardly alone. Mark Lauroesch, executive director of the Intellectual Property Owners Association, told BioWorld that there was a time when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had issued patents for some undeserving applications, but that the pendulum has gone too far to the other side, and thus "we're now seeing the baby get thrown out with the bathwater."