Task: songer_direct1

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the ideological directionality of the court of appeals decision, coded as "liberal" or "conservative". Consider liberal to be for government tax claim; for person claiming patent or copyright infringement; for the plaintiff alleging the injury; for economic underdog if one party is clearly an underdog in comparison to the other, neither party is clearly an economic underdog; in cases pitting an individual against a business, the individual is presumed to be the economic underdog unless there is a clear indication in the opinion to the contrary; for debtor or bankrupt; for government or private party raising claim of violation of antitrust laws, or party opposing merger; for the economic underdog in private conflict over securities; for individual claiming a benefit from government; for government in disputes over government contracts and government seizure of property; for government regulation in government regulation of business; for greater protection of the environment or greater consumer protection (even if anti-government); for the injured party in admiralty - personal injury; for economic underdog in admiralty and miscellaneous economic cases. Consider the directionality to be "mixed" if the directionality of the decision was intermediate to the extremes defined above or if the decision was mixed (e.g., the conviction of defendant in a criminal trial was affirmed on one count but reversed on a second count or if the conviction was afirmed but the sentence was reduced). Consider "not ascertained" if the directionality could not be determined or if the outcome could not be classified according to any conventional outcome standards.

PER CURIAM.
After announcing an opinion in the above-entitled cause, including an order for the affirmance of the judgment of the district court dismissing a complaint involving Wheeler divisional patent No. 1,951,685, and after considering and denying a petition for rehearing, we are presented with a communication entitled “Renewed Petition for Rehearing” in which eminent local counsel for appellant understandably do not join. Its unusual vehemence, its inexplicable assertion that decision was based upon an issue of fact not presented by the parties but interjected into the case for the first time in the court’s opinion, and its intemperate assertion that this “transcends the bounds of fair administration of justice,” compels a considered response.
Decision rested upon prior publication, use and sale'beyond the permissible limits of the statute. The facts of publication, use and sale are not in controversy. Their legal effect upon the validity of the patent was and still is considered by us to raise a question of law. The issue in this respect was fully argued by senior counsel for the appellee. There was ample opportunity for response in the supplemental communications of the appellant to the court and in the original petition for rehearing. Our considered judgment was based upon a careful consideration of the disclosure of the original application, and finding therein no description of the invention of the patent in suit and adjudging the law to be that drawings alone are not sufficient to comply with the statutory imperative for full disclosure, we held the divisional patent invalid. Such was our matured judgment after full consideration of oral argument and briefs; such was our judgment upon consideration of the original petition for rehearing; such is still our judgment upon consideration of the renewed petition for rehearing; Wherefore,
The renewed petition for rehearing is denied.

Question: What is the ideological directionality of the court of appeals decision?
A. conservative
B. liberal
C. mixed
D. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A