Revolutionary JP Morgan software capable of doing contract review likely...
JP Morgan has created revolutionary software capable of doing in seconds the same work that it would take a large team of lawyers 360,000 hours to complete. Clearly, this extraordinary software...
View ArticleChina relaxing barriers to software, business method patents with revised...
Guidelines, set to go into effect on April 1st in China, continue to leave the window open for software and business method patents. For software patents, patent applicants will be able to claim a...
View Article§ 101 Rejections in the Post-Alice Era
The § 101 rejection rate for patent applications in the e-commerce work groups approaches 100%, then drops precipitously for the remaining seven of the top ten work groups with the greatest percentage...
View ArticleOther Barks for Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
A growing Chinese consumer electronics firm acquires a patent portfolio that makes them the fourth global producer of smartphones with the capacity to develop semiconductors in-house. The Supreme Court...
View ArticleHave We Gone Too Far to Eradicate Weak Patents?
Asking whether the industry has gone too far to eradicate weak patents misses the point entirely, and to some extent will allow those who want the patent system to continue its march off the cliff to...
View ArticleUK Digital Strategy initiatives in AI, robotics underscore lagging U.S....
The absurd way in which important players in the U.S. patent system view the patentability of software innovations will undoubtedly harm our country’s chances of benefiting economically from the coming...
View ArticleSections 101 and 112: Eligibility, Patentability, or Somewhere in Between?
Sections 101 and 112 provide their own separate limitations to the scope of patent protection in ways that are sometimes complimentary and sometimes contradictory... Inventors are motivated to maximize...
View ArticleThe coupling of § 101 and § 112, and what it means for patent practitioners
A recent opinion by the Federal Circuit suggests that there will be considerable uncertainty about the respective boundaries of §§ 101 and 112 in the years ahead. In Trading Technologies Intl. Inc. v....
View ArticlePTAB ends Kyle Bass IPRs targeting Acorda patents on Ampyra MS treatment with...
A panel of administrative patent judges (APJs) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision ending a series of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings targeting patents...
View ArticleOther Barks for Wednesday, March 15th, 2017
A well-known patent monetization firm jumps back into the brokered patent market in 2016’s fourth quarter. A federal judge in New York allows arguments over whether American movie star Marilyn Monroe...
View ArticleWhy a Hall of Fame patent for a content delivery network likely couldn’t...
There can be little doubt that today the claims of the ‘703 patent would be considered to cover a patent ineligible abstract idea. In other words, had the United States Supreme Court decided Alice v....
View ArticlePTAB denied institution of CBM against automotive feature consolidation...
In a surprisingly restrained decision, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) released a decision denying institution of a covered business method (CBM) review proceeding on a patent that is...
View ArticleExamining USPTO Business Method Patent Eligibility Examples
On December 15, 2016, the USPTO published three subject matter eligibility examples focusing on business method claims. The purpose of these examples is to give guidance on how claims should be...
View ArticleCAFC upholds invalidation of patent application covering patient data...
On Monday, March 13th, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision upholding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) finding that a patent application covering a patient...
View ArticleRequest for Amicus Support at Federal Circuit in Evolutionary Intelligence v....
Since the Supreme Court’s Alice decision, district courts and the Federal Circuit have been ruling on what they perceive as the “abstractness” of patents—not with analysis of the claimed invention, but...
View ArticleOther Barks for Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
Google tries to strike a “patent peace” with a new cross-licensing initiative for Android developers. The Federal Circuit is petitioned for review of a judgment in a patent case on the grounds that...
View ArticleIs It Really That Obvious? A Tale of Two Decisions
On January 3, 2017 the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the court) handed down two decisions relating to obviousness under § 103 – In re: Marcel Van Os, Freddy Allen Anzures, Scott Forstall,...
View ArticlePutting Words in the Mouth of McRO: The PTO Memorandum of November 2, 2016
The USPTO Memorandum of November 2, 2016 as to Recent Subject Matter Eligibility Decisions (“USPTO Memo”) inappropriately attributes the phrase “computer-related technology” to McRO, Inc. dba Planet...
View ArticleFTC acting chair Ohlhausen tells ABA IP conference agency will wait to update...
This official acknowledgement of the decision to leave existing antitrust guidelines in place comes months after the FTC released its study of the business models of patent assertion entities (PAEs)....
View ArticleFederal Circuit limits breadth of claims based on definition in...
On April 6, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in The Medicines Company v. Mylan, Inc. (2015-1113, 2015-1151, and 2015-1181) that imports certain...
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