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Claim Construction When Uniformly Referring to Aspects of an Invention

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Chewy, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corporation - Before Moore, Chief Judge, Stoll and Cunningham. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

On the Patent Eligibility of Graphical User Interfaces: Part I

The evolution of graphical user interfaces parallels the evolution of computing technology itself.  As computers grow more powerful and sophisticated, so does their ability to display cutting-edge representations of...more

Troutman Pepper

Federal Circuit Review - Issue 274

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274-1 Federal Circuit Revisits American Axle & Manufacturing; Case Remanded to Determine if One of the “Hooke’s Law” Claims is Ineligible under Other Theories of Eligibility - The Federal Circuit recently issued a modified...more

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A Patentee Cannot Circumvent the Marking Requirement by Proving Separate Infringement of Method Claims

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PACKET INTELLIGENCE LLC v. NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. Before Lourie, Reyna, and Hughes. Appeal from U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas - Summary: The defendant’s infringement of method claims through...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

PTAB Strategies and Insights - March 2020: Another Patent Ineligible Technology - Adding to the Growing List

We wanted to bring to your attention a recent case out of the Federal Circuit: Customedia v. Dish.  This case focused on patent-eligibility and computer software claims... ...more

Weintraub Tobin

Federal Circuit Invalidates Garage Door Opener Patent Because It Is An Abstract Idea

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Have you ever driven away from your home and then had that irritating doubt in your mind as to whether you remembered to close your garage door? I know I have. No matter how hard I try to search my brain’s archives, I really...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Avoiding Early § 101 Dismissal with Factual Disputes

Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank in 2014, there has been an increasing trend in district courts granting pretrial dispositive motions to effect early dismissal of patent infringement cases under...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Cloud Cybersecurity New Hot Area For Patent Disputes: Blue Coat Systems In Major Patent Battle On Its Cloud-Based Security...

Today’s threats against enterprise and personal data are more formidable and advanced than ever. Over the past decade the cybersecurity industry has rapidly expanded in response to the need for increased online and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Video Game Network Patent Found to Be Patent Eligible – Not an Abstract Idea

The Federal District Court in Delaware recently denied a motion to dismiss a patent infringement case involving a video game networking technology patent based on the patent allegedly being invalid for lack of...more

Burr & Forman

Improving Patent Eligibility for Your Software Despite the Prohibition of Patent Protection for "Abstract Ideas"

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As technologies advance, the Patent Office (as well as the Nation’s courts) must utilize Section 101 of the Patent Act to place reasonable limitations on patent eligibility to ensure that our patent system balances the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Video Upload Facilitation Patents Invalid Under Alice Framework

On November 10, 2016, Judge David C. Godbey of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas held that two video upload patents were invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The patents, owned by Youtoo...more

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Federal Circuit Takes A Common Law Approach to “Abstract Idea” Determinations in Alice Cases

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In Amdocs (Israel) Ltd. v. Openet Telecom Inc. et al., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently upheld four software patents against a patent-eligibility challenge, finding that the patents do not claim an...more

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The USPTO’s Latest Memo on Subject Matter Eligibility Provides Hope For Modern Innovators

On November 2, 2016 the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a memo to Examiners on its stance on subject matter eligibility in response to the McRO and BASCOM Federal Circuit decisions, previously...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Patent Owner Asserts 101 Ineligibility Is Not a Defense That Can Be Raised in Litigation

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On September 26, 2016, RPost Communications Limited (“RPost”) filed a brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”), arguing that the district court did not have statutory authority...more

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Zak v. Facebook, Inc. (E.D. Mich. 2016) - Software Patent Found to Be Directed to Abstract Idea, But Survives § 101 Challenge with...

Bruce Zak, an individual, sued Facebook, Inc. for patent infringement in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on two of his software patents -- United States Patent Nos. 8,713,134 and 9,141,720. ...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

Fenwick & West LLP

Update on Patent Eligibility Decisions for First Quarter, 2016

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Here are the updated numbers for #Alicestorm in the first quarter of 2016. First, the overall trend of decisions...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Patent Examiners Who Cut Corners in Subject Matter Eligibility Decisions Can Be Reversed

Due to the rapidly shifting requirement for subject matter eligibility, some patent examiners seem to believe that, when it comes to software inventions, they are entitled to assume the invention is not patent eligible...more

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Still Alice: Not all software patents are being invalidated under Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l

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On June 19, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l (Alice). In Alice, the Court held that several patents that pertained to a computerized platform for eliminating risk in...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

"Software" Claims Reciting No Structural Components and Having Questionable Novelty Struck Down under 35 U.S.C. § 101

Two recent District Court decisions show examples of "weak" claims, which in the past would likely be found invalid as lacking novelty or being obvious, but today are struck down as being unpatentable under § 101. The cases...more

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Overview of Comments on the USPTO's July 2015 Update to the Interim Examination Guidance

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In late July, the USPTO issued its July 2015 Update to the 2014 Interim Section 101 Patent Eligibility Guidance (IEG). The July 2015 Update addresses a number of the issues and concerns raised in the public comments to the...more

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