A recent U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) memorandum to the Patent Examining Corps, in combination with precedential cases from the Federal Circuit, provides positive guidance to owners of software patents and patent...more
In Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corp., decided on May 12, 2016, the Federal Circuit ( “the Enfish court” or “the Court”) has provided much-needed clarification to the Alice test for patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C....more