In a decision issued last month, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reversed the final rejection of all pending claims in U.S. Application No. 14/207,507. Claims 2-7 were rejected under...more
PTAB Affirms Patent Eligibility of Claims for Using Dwell Time to Rank Search Results -
In a decision issued last month, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reversed the final...more
Navigating the post-Alice patent-eligibility landscape with graphical user interface (GUI) claims can be trying, particularly when fighting to maintain desirable breadth. As with all software-related claims, limitations must...more
Claims for Managing and Delivering Targeted Advertising Data Found Invalid under Covered Business Method (CBM) Patent Review -
On June 11, 2018, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)...more
PTAB Affirms Patent Eligibility of Claims for Training a Spoken Language Understanding Classifier -
In a decision issued earlier this month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board reversed the...more
PTAB Affirms Patent Eligibility of Virtual Reality Advertising Claims -
In a decision issued last month, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board reversed the final rejection of all the pending claims in U.S. Application No....more
Fair Use and Social Media Sites like BuzzFeed -
Fair use, an evolving doctrine and a very popular fallback for those on the Internet, has continued to be “the most troublesome in the whole law of copyright.” Its goal has...more
In a decision entered last week, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office made clear its intention going forward to weigh seven factors in determining whether to deny follow-on inter...more