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Federal Circuit Set to Consider Whether A Blockchain Application is Patent Eligible

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP on 2/8/2024

Does recording an object’s physical properties to a blockchain render the resulting network (or method of using the same) patent-eligible? In Rady v. Boston Consulting Group, the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments on...more

Patent Litigation Considerations For The Internet Of Medical Things (IoMT) COVID-19 Boom

Porter Hedges LLP on 3/1/2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a catalyst for medical technology innovation, especially the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). IoMT generally refers to the use of network and cloud technologies to connect medical equipment...more

European Patent Office Issues New Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints on 11/8/2018

On November 1, 2018, the European Patent Office (“EPO”) issued new guidelines for the patentability of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning (“ML”) inventions which indicate that applications within this subject...more

Patenting Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Innovations in Europe

Jones Day on 10/25/2018

The Situation: Artificial intelligence and machine learning ("AI/ML") play an increasingly important role in a number of industries, and those industries are seeking ways to guard their innovations by means of copyright and...more

EU Patent Office publishes preview of guidelines on patenting AI applications

Hogan Lovells on 10/5/2018

Earlier this year the European Patent Office (“EPO”) held its first ever conference on patenting artificial intelligence (“AI”)....more

Video Upload Facilitation Patents Invalid Under Alice Framework

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 11/22/2016

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

U.S. Appeals Court Finds a Software Patent Valid Even Under the Supreme Court’s “Alice” Test

Knobbe Martens on 8/29/2016

A recent Federal Circuit decision in Bascom Global Internet Services, Inc. v. AT&T Mobility LLC, gives patent owners another illustration of patent subject matter eligibility under section 101....more

Can Digital Healthcare Innovation Be Patented? Eligibility of Digital Healthcare Technologies Under the New USPTO Eligibility...

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. on 1/22/2015

Digital healthcare, the confluence of digital technology with medical and other biological fields, has become an ever-increasing presence in our daily lives. Ideas that seemed nearly impossible just a few years ago (such as...more

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Abstract Idea Implemented on Generic Computer is Not Patent Eligible

Miller Canfield on 6/23/2014

Patent claims that merely require generic computer implementation do not transform a patent-ineligible abstract idea into a patent-eligible invention, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Alice Corp v. CLS Bank, decided on...more

Software Is Still Patentable, With Caveats

K&L Gates LLP on 6/23/2014

On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited opinion on software and business method patents in Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, et al. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Thomas, the Court held all of...more

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