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BakerHostetler

IOENGINE v. Ingenico: Are Electronic Communications Fair Game for the Printed Matter Doctrine?

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In IOENGINE, LLC v. Ingenico Inc.,2021-1227 (Fed. Cir. May 3, 2024), the Federal Circuit reversed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) determination that certain claim features did not carry patentable weight under the...more

Weintraub Tobin

District Court Finds Mobile Payment Patents Not Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101

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In Mobile Equity Corp. v. Walmart Inc., 2-21-cv-00126 (EDTX Sep. 8, 2022) (Roy S. Payne), the Court found that the asserted claims were not directed towards an abstract idea and did not encompass unpatentable subject matter...more

McDermott Will & Emery

PTO Will Transition to Electronic Issuance of Patents and Trademarks

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The US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) announced on December 10, 2021, that it intends to transition to electronic issuance of patents and trademarks in 2022. Under the current rule (37 C.F.R § 1.315), the PTO must deliver or...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

Hogan Lovells

New USPTO rule: Applicants and registrants to provide email address

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The USPTO’s new all-electronic processing initiative has imposed a new requirement on all applicants and registrants to update their application and registration records to provide an email address for correspondence with the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

E-Message Patents Survive Alice Challenge

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Common computer technology has fallen victim to Alice in many recent cases. It is therefore noteworthy that the District of Massachusetts declined to invalidate e-mail management patents under §101 in Sophos v. RPost. ...more

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