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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

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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

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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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Sanderling Management v. Snap Inc. No. 21-2173 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 12, 2023) Alice – 35 U.S.C. § 101

This case addresses patent eligibility under Alice and whether the district court should have afforded the patent owner leave to amend its complaint. Background - Sanderling asserted three patents sharing a common...more

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Supreme Court on Section 101 Patent Eligibility: Thanks But No Thanks

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The U.S. Supreme Court conferred on two patent eligibility cases last week. And, if you are like me, you did not sleep a wink while anxiously awaiting the Court's decision. But if you're reading this, you likely already know...more

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CAFC Patent Cases - September 2021

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Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - *WilmerHale represented the Appellee. COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC v. DALI WIRELESS INC. [OPINION] (2020-1817, 2020-1818, 08/24/2021) (REYNA, SCHALL, and STOLL) - Stoll, J....more

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Could Alice Be Used to Invalidate Diehr? Of Course It Could

The Supreme Court's Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l case has been criticized for setting forth a patent eligibility analysis that is unworkably subjective. As a consequence, the validity of particular types of inventions,...more

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On the Patent Eligibility of Information Processing

A computer does just three things:  receives information in the form of bits, transforms this information, and provides output based on the information as transformed.  The receiving may take place by way of various types of...more

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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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Adaptive Streaming Inc. v. Netflix, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2020)

Adaptive Streaming, the owner of U.S. Patent No. 7,047,305, sued Netflix in the Central District of California for alleged infringement. Netflix moved to dismiss the case on the pleadings under Rule 12(b)(6), asserting that...more

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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

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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

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Electronic Communication Technologies, LLC v. ShoppersChoice.com, LLC (Fed. Cir. 2020)

Electronic Communication Technologies (ECT) sued ShoppersChoice in the Southern District of Florida for allegedly infringing claim 11 of U.S. Patent No. 9,373,261.  The claim recites...more

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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

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Recent USPTO Report Suggests Greater Consistency and Predictability in Patent-Ineligible Subject Matter Rejections

Last week, the US Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) released a report detailing its findings on how the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, as well as subsequent USPTO guidance on 35...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

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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

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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

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PTO Releases Patent Eligibility Guidance Update

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On October 18, 2019, in view of comments received, the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued an update to the 2019 Patent Eligibility Guidance (PEG), which became effective January 2019. The update is similar to the...more

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Mobile Check Deposit Patent Case Headed for Trial

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Companies involved in mobile checking should watch case closely - The United States Automobile Association (USAA) owns a portfolio of patents aimed at mobile check deposit technology. One group of these patents is targeted...more

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USPTO Updates Its 2019 Patent Eligibility Guidelines

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Late last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published updated guidance to patent examiners for evaluating subject matter eligibility. This update was in response to comments received in response to...more

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Federal Circuit Closes Door on Patentability in Chamberlain

In The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Techtronic Industries Co., the Federal Circuit weighed in on the type of subject matter that can be characterized as an “abstract idea” and, thus, not eligible for patent protection....more

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Federal Circuit Review - July 2019

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Broad Claim Language and Unpredictability in the Art Lead to Non-Enablement - In Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. v.  Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2017-2498, -2499, -2545, -2546, broad patent claims were invalid as...more

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