If you eliminate the Junk Bubble from 2008-2014 (the period of max ins@nity before effects of Mayo/Alice) then and draw a line from the prior slope, you would see that the PTO would otherwise have reached the present rate of grant sometime around 2025.

Heckuva job, Kappos.

Fyi, more appealed claims tanked under 101 today by the CAFC, including a precedential opinion:

The claim recites a method of changing one description of a level sensitive latch (i.e., a functional description) into another description of thelevel sensitive latch (i.e., a hardware component description) by way of a third description of that very same level sensitive latch (i.e., assignment conditions). …

The limited, straightforward nature of the steps involved in the claimed method make evident that a skilled artisan could perform the steps mentally. The inventors of the Gregory Patents confirmed this point when they admitted to performing the steps mentally themselves …

Query what percentage of the logic instructions that human beings write for computers was first “performed mentally” (or with the assistance of a pencil and paper, or with the assistance of a calculator, or — oh noes! — with the assistance of a super shiny computer) by a human being.

Probably pretty close to 100%.

Animating cartoon character mouths, of course, is the big exception. There was nothing logical about that prior to computers. It was totally “subjective”. Or so the CAFC would have everyone believe.