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Live Long and Patent: Lessons from Captain Kirk’s Encounter with the PTAB

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In a tale that boldly goes where few celebrity inventors have gone before, William Shatner—yes, that William Shatner—alongside two co-inventors, filed a patent application for a “Smartphone Organization System and...more

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Crypto Unlocked: New Patent Eligibility Guidance on Blockchain Technology  

The U.S. gave crypto one of its biggest regulatory jolts in years. With the signing of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (“GENIUS”) Act stablecoins now have a legal framework. The GENIUS...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

An Empirical Study of Low Allowance Rate Examiners

Any patent attorney who has been in the business for more than a few years understands from experience that some USPTO examiners are tougher than others.  This should not be surprising, as each examiner is an individual who...more

Erise IP

Eye on IPRs, April 2024: PTAB’s Analogous Art Finding Upheld by Federal Circuit, Blockchain Gemstone Identifying Process Patent...

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Every month, Erise’s patent attorneys review the latest inter partes review cases and news to bring you the stories that you should know about: Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB’s Analogous Art Finding - As IP Watchdog...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

2023 Federal Circuit Case Summaries - Intellectual Property: Year End Report

We are pleased to share Sheppard Mullin’s inaugural “Year in Review” report that collects and reports on most key patent law-related Federal Circuit decisions for 2023. This is a follow up to the quarterly report we...more

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How To Patent Software And Computer-Implemented Business Methods In The US And Abroad

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It is well known that in the U.S., abstract ideas, laws of nature, natural phenomena, and products of nature are all excluded from patenting under 35 U.S.C. § 101. This article briefly outlines various U.S. approaches to...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Patent Directed to Countering Credit Card Fraud is an Invalid Abstract Idea Under Section 101

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In the case of In Re: SARADA MOHAPATRA, Appellant, No. 2020-1935, 2021 WL 408755 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 5, 2021), Sarada Mohapatra sought to overturn a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), holding that his patent...more

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Top Section 101 Patent Eligibility Stories of 2020

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Light a fire, pour yourself some glogg (21+) and find a comfy corner to read about the biggest Section 101 stories of 2020 because we're gonna have the hap-hap-happiest time since Bing Crosby tap-danced with . . . Well, you...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Stupid § 101 Tricks

If we have learned anything from the last six-and-a-half years of patent eligibility jurisprudence, it is that nobody knows what's going on. Subject matter eligibility is a fundamental requirement for an invention to be...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Federal Circuit: Patent Directed to Physician to Patient Communication System Abstract, Invalid

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Angadibir Singh Salwan is the named inventor on a patent application titled "Physician to Patient Network System for Real-Time Electronic Communications & Transfer of Patient Health Information," which disclosed a private and...more

Knobbe Martens

USPTO Guidance Cannot Modify or Supplant the Alice/Mayo Framework

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IN RE: CHRISTOPHER JOHN RUDY - Before Prost, O’Malley, and Taranto. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: The Patent and Trademark Office’s October 2019 Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

USPTO Assesses the Impact of Patent Eligibility's Changing Landscape

In a post-truth world, it is more tempting than ever to evaluate data based on gut instinct, intuition, and anecdotal evidence.  It is thus refreshing when results of a robust statistical analysis are published, even if the...more

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Claims Including Computer Speed and Efficiency Improvements May Still Be Ineligible Under Section 101

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CUSTOMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES, LLC V. DISH NETWORK CORPORATION, DISH NETWORK LLC. Before Prost, Dyk, and Moore. Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Claims...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

What is an Abstract Idea, Anyway?

In 2014's Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l case, Justice Thomas famously wrote, "we need not labor to delimit the precise contours of the 'abstract ideas' category in this case."  Instead, he found the claims of patentee Alice...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Machine Learning Patentability in 2019: 5 Cases Analyzed and Lessons Learned Part 2

This article is the second in a five-part series. Each of these articles relates to the state of machine-learning patentability in the United States during 2019. Each of these articles describe one case in which the PTAB...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Machine Learning Patentability in 2019: 5 Cases Analyzed and Lessons Learned Part 1

This article is the first of a five-part series of articles dealing with what patentability of machine learning looks like in 2019. This article begins the series by describing the USPTO’s 2019 Revised Patent Subject Matter...more

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USPTO Designates Ex Parte Linden as an Informative § 101 PTAB Decision

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), on occasion, publishes certain Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions as precedential or informative. An informative decision provides PTAB norms on recurring issues,...more

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PTAB Designates as Informative Three Decisions on Obviousness and Patent Eligibility

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently designated three more decisions as informative, bringing the total number of informative decisions to 13 for 2019. Two decisions—one final and one on institution—address...more

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USPTO Designates Three Decisions as Informative

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On December 11, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) designated three decisions as informative, adding to a significant number of decisions designated as either precedential or informative this year. One of these...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

October 2019 Patent Eligibility Guidance Update

Earlier this year, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or “the Office”) published the 2019 Revised Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance (2019 PEG), which set forth newly revised procedures to be used by USPTO...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Video Gaming / E-Gaming Law Update – November 2019

Main Quest: Does Your Gaming Stream Violate the Copyright Act? Streaming platforms, such as Twitch, Mixer and YouTube Gaming, are quickly becoming household names, with daily viewership rates that rival those of more...more

Jones Day

Privacy Management Patent Invalidated as Abstract in Post Grant Review

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On October 10, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) issued a Final Written Decision in favor of Avepoint, Inc. (“Avepoint”) and against Onetrust, LLC (“Onetrust”) in an America Invents Act post grant review...more

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Effect of USPTO’s October 2019 101 Guidance

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The USPTO has released updated subject matter eligibility guidance that incorporates comments on the changes made in January 2019.The guidance is 22 pages long, with three appendices and 87 footnotes. Below are a few of the...more

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Patent Case Summaries

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A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

The PTAB Goes to Europe: Four Recent Section 101 Decisions Designated as Informative

On July 1, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) designated four of its recent 35 U.S.C. § 101 decisions as informative.  Each of these decisions came down after and applied...more

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