Software Claims Survive Section 101 Challenge and Are Found to Be Directed to Patent-Eligible Subject Matter -
In the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently designated its...more
File-Searching Software Patent Found to be Patent Eligible -
Speedtrack sued Amazon for patent infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,544,360 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. ...more
Petitioners, KAYAK Software Corp., OpenTable, Inc., Priceline.com LLC, and The Priceline Group Inc. filed a Petition requesting a covered business method (CBM) patent review of claims 1–9 and 12–17 of U.S. Patent No....more
The PTAB denied institution of a covered business method (CBM) patent review in a case between BMC Software Inc. (Petitioner) v. zIT Consulting GmbH (Patent Owner). Petitioner, BMC Software, Inc., filed a Petition to...more
Electronic Delivery of Messages Equated to U.S. Post Office Services -
On May 12, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an Order in a case captioned Mobile Telecommunications Technologies, LLC...more
Pepys (17th century) recorded his sleep patterns, so wearable devices that record sleep patterns unpatentable?
On April 27, 2016, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) issued an Order indicating that two patents...more
On March 1, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued an opinion in a number of related appeals between Blue Calypso, LLC and Groupon, Inc. These related appeals arise from five Covered Business Method (CBM) reviews of five patents...more
A recent decision by the Federal Circuit in JVC Kenwood Corp. v. Nero, Inc., decided August 17, 2015, involves nuanced details of standard-essential patents, but arrived at a common sense result: either the patents at issue...more
8/24/2015
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End-Users ,
Indirect Infringement ,
Induced Infringement ,
Licensees ,
Patent Exhaustion ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Software ,
Standard Essential Patents ,
Summary Judgment
In This Issue:
- After B&B Hardware, What is the Full Scope of Estoppel Arising From a PTAB Decision in District Court Litigation?
- When You Don’t Know What You Know: The Role of Unappreciated Inherency in the...more
6/3/2015
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B&B Hardware v Hargis Industries ,
CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Covered Business Method Patents ,
Estoppel ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Software ,
Trademark Litigation ,
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ,
Trademarks ,
USPTO
Patents generally describe new inventions in terms of a unique structure, function, or combination of structure and function. Those patents that focus on functions of computers or computer-implemented functionality are often...more
6/2/2015
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CLS Bank v Alice Corp ,
Covered Business Method Patents ,
Mayo v. Prometheus ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Popular ,
Section 101 ,
Software ,
Software Developers