Electronic Gaming Patents Found Invalid under § 101 -
In the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (Houston Division), Plaintiff Epic Tech, LLC (a seller of so-called "sweepstakes games") sued...more
Claims Directed to Selecting Fishing Hooks for Use Are Not Patentable -
Christopher John Rudy, represented pro se, appealed from a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("Board") affirming the rejection of claims...more
Land Rover's Patented "Terrain Response Technology" Found Patent Eligible -
In 2016, Bentley Motors Ltd. and Bentley Motors, Inc. launched their first SUV, the Bentayga, which is a direct competitor to Jaguar Land Rover...more
Patent Claims for Digital Camera Are Not Patent Eligible -
In two related actions in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California brought by Yanbin Yu and Zhongxuan Zhang (patentee), Apple Inc. and...more
Claims Directed to Television Survive Abstract Idea Challenge -
In a recent decision from the U.S. District Court Northern District of California, involving Free Stream Media Corp. v. Alphonso Inc., claims of a television...more
Plaintiff Image Processing Technologies, LLC ("IPT") filed suit against Samsung in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division), alleging infringement of three patents, including U.S. Patent...more
Patents Directed to Mail Barcodes Found to be Directed to Ineligible Subject Matter -
Secured Mail Solutions LLC appealed from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California's grant of a motion to dismiss...more
Telephone Call Processing Patent Claims Found Invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 -
In the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, Plaintiff filed a declaratory judgment action on seeking a declaration that...more
On July 27, 2017, the Federal Circuit issued an opinion in Audatex North America, Inc. v. Mitchell International, Inc., upholding the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB) decision in which...more
In the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Dialware Communications sued Hasbro, Inc. alleging that Hasbro's Furby toys infringe on five patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 7,183,929 (the "'929 Patent"),...more
Claims Directed to Providing Financing for Allowing a Customer to Purchase a Car found Invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 -
In a precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit affirmed a final written decision of the Patent Trial...more
Message Publishing Patents Found Invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 -
In a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Court held all asserted claims of five U.S. patents to be invalid under 35...more
Method for Processing Images from 3D Camera System Found Invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 -
It is well-known law today that under 35 U.S.C. § 101, a patent claim that recites a solution to a problem but not the means of...more
Claims Lacking Details Found to be Directed to Patent-Ineligible Subject Matter -
In the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah (Central Division), Polar filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings contending that...more
Patent Directed to System for Remote Mirroring of Digital Data Found Invalid under Section 101 -
Intellectual Ventures brought a patent-infringement suit against Symantec Corpo. and Veritas Technologies asserting that...more
Software Patent Directed to Pairing Activity Trackers to a Device Considered Patent-Eligible -
In the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (San Jose Division), Fitbit, Inc., sued Aliphcom (d/b/a...more
Method for Manufacturing Product (Dental Crown) Found to be Patent Eligible -
Zircore sued Straumann Manufacturing for patent infringement in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division)...more
File-Searching Software Patent Found to be Patent Eligible -
Speedtrack sued Amazon for patent infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,544,360 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. ...more
Computer-Related Data Security Patents Found to Recite Patent Eligible Subject Matter -
Spex sued Apricorn for infringing U.S. Patent Nos. 6,088,802 and 6,003,135 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of...more
Patent Directed to Programmable Ticketing System Determined to be Eligible for Covered Business Method Patent Review -
Petitioner, iVenture Card Traveler Ltd, filed a Petition seeking to institute a covered business...more
Message Exchange Patent Held Invalid under Section 101 -
Mobile Telecommunications Technologies, LLC ("MTel") sued United Parcel Service, Inc. ("UPS") in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia for...more
In the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, in a case captioned Perdiemco, LLC. v. Industrack LLC, the Court found some patents having method claims directed to "conveying user location" to be...more
On October 11, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion in FairWarning IP, LLC v. Iatric Systems, Inc. affirming dismissal of a patent infringement suit brought by FairWarning holding that the asserted patent,...more
Intellectual Ventures I LLC ("IV") sued Symantec Corp. and Trend Micro (defendants) for infringement of various claims of three U.S. Patents (Nos. 6,460,050; 6,073,142; and 5,987,610). The District Court held the asserted...more
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"Computer Display System" Patent Found Invalid under § 101 -
Tridim Innovations LLC sued Amazon.com, Inc. for patent infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,838,326 and 5,847,709 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern...more