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Quinn IP Law | USA | 21 Feb 2017
The 20 Year War On Patents: When Will It End?
The Federal Circuit's 1998 State Street Bank decision was a sweeping departure from precedent and opened the floodgates to so-called business method…
Fenwick & West LLP | USA | 25 Sep 2016
More Lessons From McRo
My previous blog on McRo focused on the direct aspects of the decision, but there are other excellent points that the court makes and that can be…
PCK Perry + Currier Inc | USA | 6 Sep 2016
Patent Application for Blackjack Variation Rejected as Unpatentable Subject Matter
Makers of new ideas for games have plenty of ways to monetize and protect their intellectual property - copyright to protect the artwork, a good…
Seyfarth Shaw LLP | USA | 14 Jul 2016
Another Software Patent Survives an Alice Challenge
Inventions directed to "organizing information" have long been the subject of 101 challenges. Courts and the Patent Office alike have invalidated…
Baker & Hostetler LLP | USA | 22 Mar 2016
In Re Smith: A Raw Deal for Inventors?
The recent decision in In re Smith (Fed. Cir. 2016), in which the Federal Circuit affirmed the rejection of claims 1-18 as being ineligible for patent…
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | USA | 5 Dec 2014
Analyzing the claims using the framework of Bilski, Mayo and Alice, Federal Circuit finds § 101 patent-eligible subject matter in a patent directed to website manipulation
CAFC held that the district court erred by denying defendants’ motion for JMOL of invalidity of the ’572 patent under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a). There was…
Pierce Atwood LLP | USA | 25 Nov 2014
Alice as game-changer: Federal Circuit changes course on advertising patent in Ultramercial
The third time is the charm in Ultramercial v. Hulu: After twice finding that an advertising method patent was directed to patent eligible subject…
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC | USA | 28 Oct 2014
Business method patents under fire in the United States
While the United States has long been considered one of the most accommodating countries for computer-implemented business method patents, these…
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | USA | 26 Sep 2014
Patents directed to rounding method for contributing to a recipient account claim patent ineligible subject matter pursuant to Alice, Bilski and Mayo
On September 11, 2014, District Judge Steven D. Merryday for the United States District Court Middle District of Florida determined that plaintiff…
Baker & Hostetler LLP | USA | 15 Sep 2014
Addressing Section 101 issues through reissue
The contraction of patent eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. 101 that Alice, Mayo, Bilski, and other recent court cases have triggered has…
