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US Supreme Court rules on the eligibility of business methods for patenting

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • August 11 2010

Recently, the United States Supreme Court issued its long-awaited judgment in Bilski v Kappos, which deals with important questions surrounding the patentability of business methods and other subject matter, including software and other process-related innovations

Software and business method patents recent leading European and US decisions

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • August 11 2010

Recently we have had two long-awaited decisions on the patentability of software and business methods

Commission issues opinion granting LEO and cease and desist order in Inv. No. 337-TA-661

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 10 2010

The Commission has issued an opinion affirming ALJ Essex’s finding that a Section 337 violation occurred, and provided further findings on invalidity, in Inv. No. 337-TA-661, Certain Semiconductor Chips Having Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory Controllers And Products Containing Same

Settlement of legal battles between semiconductor foundries

  • Bird & Bird
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  • China, USA
  • -
  • August 11 2010

SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation), the largest chip foundry in China and TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation), the global leader of chip manufacturer reached a settlement of legal actions on 9 November 2009 to resolve all pending court litigations between the parties, including a patent infringement and trade secret lawsuit brought by TSMC in California and SMIC's appeal in Beijing regarding unfair competition

... but the UK IP office continues to plough the Macrossan furrow ...

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 12 2010

Despite the endorsement by the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO approach to software patents, the UK IP Office has, in Marathon Oil Company et al, BL O17410, ignoring (not even mentioning) the Enlarged Board of Appeal decision, applied the "contribution" test laid down by the Court of Appeal in AerotelMacrossan, namely (1) properly construe the claim; (2) identify the actual contribution; (3) ask whether the actual contribution falls solely within the excluded subject matter and (4) check whether the contribution is technical in nature

Protecting software and business methods via the EPO

  • Garrigues
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  • European Union
  • -
  • September 2 2011

The European Patent Office has, over the years, granted protection to hundreds, even thousands, of inventions involving a business method or computer program

The patentability of software the Enlarged Board of Appeal says the law is just fine ...

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • August 12 2010

The European Patent Convention provides that computer programs "as such" shall not be regarded as patentable inventions

Software patents in Canada: new guidelines released

  • Field Law LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • March 19 2013

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has released guidance on "Computer-Implemented Inventions" as planned, in the wake of the Federal Court of

CIPO issues examiner guideline for computer-implemented inventions (PN 2013-03)

  • Bennett Jones LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 14 2013

After some prior iterations and commentary from the patent bar, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) published a practice note dealing

Insights about software patenting: Cybersource Corp. v. Retail Decisions

  • Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 18 2013

What are some recent insights about software patenting? In Cybersource Corp. v. Retail Decisions, Inc., 654 F.3d 1366 (2011), the United States Court

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