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Under 35 U.S.C. § 101, patent claims may be challenged if they are found to be directed to patent ineligible subject matter, such as laws of nature, natural phenomena, products of nature or abstract ideas. On September 9,...more
On September 9, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a finding by the District Court for the Northern District of California that point-of-view camera claims were ineligible. ...more
In the recent decision of Miller Mendel, Inc. v. City of Anna, Texas, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 17637 (Fed. Cir. July 18, 2024), the Federal Circuit upheld the district court’s grant of a motion for judgment on the pleadings under...more
Miller Mendel, Inc. v. City of Anna, Texas, Nos. 2022-1753, -1999 (Fed. Cir. (E.D. Tex.) July 18, 2024). Opinion by Cunningham, joined by Moore and Stoll. Miller Mendel sued City of Anna, Texas for infringement of a patent...more
On June 21, 2024, Judge Jesse M. Furman (S.D.N.Y.) denied Monday.com Ltd. (“Monday”)’s motion to dismiss a complaint for patent infringement by plaintiff Michael Philip Kaufman. See Kaufman v. Monday.com Ltd., 23-CV-5864...more
In 2014, the Supreme Court upended U.S. patent law in the landmark ruling for Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International. The Alice decision established new standards for determining whether inventions, especially those related...more
According to Statista*, in 2020 computer technology patents made up the majority of patent applications in the U.S., totalling approximately 60,000 patents. In 2022, Unified Patents** found that software, hardware, and...more
Generally, an employer owns all rights in software code created by its employee in the scope of their employment. As outlined in the last edition of this series, this general rule typically applies to independent contractors...more
A Federal Circuit judge, sitting by designation in the District of Delaware, granted-in-part and denied-in-part a Rule 12(c) motion by the defendant for judgment based on patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The case...more
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board held all challenged claims of IGT’s patent unpatentable as obvious over two prior art patents. Zynga Inc. v. IGT, IPR2022-00199-32. In doing so, the PTAB further held that, contrary to...more
Software is increasingly used as a medical device, transforming the healthcare industry with the goal of improving patient outcomes. However, developing software as a medical device involves navigating complex and evolving...more
People.ai, Inc. v. Clari Inc., 2022-1364, (Fed. Cir. April. 7, 2023) - In an appeal before the Federal Circuit, plaintiff People.ai argued to no avail that the Northern District of California erred in its finding of...more
One of the first patent disputes involving cryptocurrencies is being litigated in federal court in Texas. Cryptocurrency firm Veritaseum Capital sued Circle Internet Financial Ltd for alleged infringement of its...more
Once again addressing the application of Alice, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit partially reversed a district court’s dismissal of several patents as subject matter ineligible for error in analyzing their...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently released its decision in Thaler v. Vidal, No. 21-2347 (Fed. Cir.), the much-discussed case that addresses whether artificial intelligence (AI) software can be listed...more
Bluebonnet Internet Media Services, LLC (“Bluebonnet”) asserted three patents relating to generating media playlists against Pandora Media, LLC (“Pandora”). Judge Chhabria granted Pandora’s motion for judgment on the...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that an artificial intelligence (AI) software system cannot be listed as an inventor on a patent application because the Patent Act requires an “inventor” to be a natural...more
The Federal Circuit recently provided strategic guidance for defending software claims against Alice challenges that claims recite ineligible patent subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. In Mentone Solutions LLC v. Digi...more
Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - CELGENE CORPORATION v. MYLAN PHARMACEUTICALS INC. [OPINION] (2021-1154, 11/05/2021) (PROST, CHEN, and HUGHES) - Prost, J. This is a case about venue and pleading under the...more
No Assembly, No Infringement – Federal Circuit Declines to Expand the “Final Assembler” Theory of Direct Infringement In Acceleration Bay LLC v. Take-Two Interactive Software, Appeal No. 20-1700 the Federal Circuit held that...more
In Rain Computing, Inc. v. Samsung Elecs. Am., Inc., the Federal Circuit held that the claimed language “user identification module” was a means-plus-function element with no corresponding structure disclosed in the...more
In the case of In re Bongiorno, No. 2020-1835, 2021 WL 1997454, at *4 (Fed. Cir. May 19, 2021), patent applicant James Bongiorno appealed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB) finding that two of his patent applications...more
SYNCHRONOSS TECHNOLOGIES, INC v. DROPBOX, INC. Before Prost, Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary: A claim construed to require hardware does not...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s pleadings-stage determination that patent claims directed to an object-oriented simulation were subject matter ineligible under 35 USC § 101. Simio,...more
In extraordinary times, sometimes the ordinary is comforting, so we want to bring you a short newsletter this month and provide some operating details for the major patent agencies in the US. First, we hope all our...more