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Federal Circuit denies rehearing in TiVO patent case

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 18 2008

EchoStar vowed to seek redress before the U.S. Supreme Court after learning this week that the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals had denied the company’s request for an en banc rehearing of its patent dispute with TiVO

Tenth Circuit overturns grant of summary judgment despite defendant’s “powerful arguments” regarding interpretation of copyright ownership license

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 28 2009

Analyzing an allegedly ambiguous contract in a complicated, multimillion-dollar dispute over source code copyrights for the Unix operating system, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reiterated that “powerful arguments” are insufficient to warrant summary judgment and remanded for a trial

Reassurance that patenting of computer-implemented inventions is possible

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 14 2008

In October 2006 the UK Court of Appeal clarified the scope of the exclusions from patentability (including that of computer programs) to a large extent in the decision of AerotelMacrossan which laid down a four-stage test for patentability

Federal Circuit requires sufficient structure for means-plus-function claims relating to computer-implemented inventions

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2008

On March 28, 2008, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. v. International Game Technology, Civ. No. 2007-1419 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 28, 2008) held that when the corresponding structure of a means-plus-function limitation is a standard microprocessor programmed to perform an algorithm, the specification must also sufficiently disclose the algorithm

Strategies for arguing against 101 rejections of software-based method claims in light of In re Bilski

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 23 2009

On October 30, 2008 the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) decided In re Bilski, which pertains to the eligibility of method claims as statutory subject matter under 35 U.S.C. 101

Federal Court of Justice: scope of neighbouring rights in databases

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • September 25 2009

The German Federal Court of Justice decided in its ruling of April 30, 2009, that the creator of a database can forbid third parties from detecting database modifications by means of data synchronization and from using them for a competitive product (file no. I ZR 19105

The claim terms “portable computer” and “portable computer microprocessing system” did not encompass laptops where laptops were disclaimed during prosecution

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2008

In Computer Docking Station Corp. v. Dell, Inc., Nos. 07-1169, -1316 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 21, 2008), the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of SJ of noninfringement because the patentee disavowed an interpretation of “portable computer” that would encompass a computer with a built-in display or keyboard, i.e., a laptop

Symbian, Autonomy and Astron Clinica the latest trio of UK software patentability decisions

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 28 2008

The divergence between the English courts and the European Patent Office (“EPO”) as to the circumstances in which software is patentable has been a source of endless confusion for companies operating in the United Kingdom and their advisers

California court orders preservation of RAM data

  • Duane Morris LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 25 2007

In early June, the federal court for the Central District of California, in Columbia Pictures Indus. v. Bunnell, Case No. CV 06-1093, issued a ruling requiring a company to store its random access memory ("RAM") data

Federal Circuit vacates multi-million dollar damages award in Lucent patent case

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 11 2009

On September 11, 2009, the Federal Circuit issued its Opinion in Lucent Technologies v. Gateway, Inc., Case No. 2008-1485, vacating the Southern District of California’s grant of a $511 million dollar damages award in favor of Lucent

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