In Cosmokey Solutions Gmbh & Co. KG v. Duo Security LLC, on October 4, 2021, the Federal Circuit jumped straight to Step Two of the Supreme Court’s two-step method for determining patent eligibility and upheld a user...more
The Director of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has been asked to upgrade the status of two recent decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), which determined that two medical innovations are eligible to be...more
4/8/2020
/ Abstract Ideas ,
Appeals ,
Director of the USPTO ,
Innovation ,
Life Sciences ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Precedential Opinion ,
Reversal
On April 17, 2019, Senators Tillis (R-NC) and Coons (D-DE), along with a bipartisan group of three members of the House of Representatives, announced the release of a framework on Section 101 patent reform. Senators Tillis...more
5/23/2019
/ Abstract Ideas ,
AIPLA ,
Biotechnology ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Computer-Related Inventions ,
Intellectual Property Owner’s Association (IPO) ,
Judicial Exception ,
Mayo v. Prometheus ,
Novelty ,
Obviousness ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Product of Nature Doctrine ,
Proposed Legislation ,
SCOTUS ,
Section 101 ,
Section 102 ,
Section 103 ,
Section 112
In Data Engine Technologies LLC v. Google LLC, holding patent-eligible a spreadsheet provided with tabs to facilitate navigation, the Federal Circuit continued, in late 2018, to refine the law of patent eligibility of...more