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Not All Smiles for McRO Even Though Federal Circuit Vacates Invalidity Based on Enablement

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The Federal Circuit affirmed a California district court's judgment of noninfringement but vacated its judgment of invalidity for lack of enablement since the defendants' proposed non-enabling facial animation techniques did...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

The Three Properties of Patent-Eligibility: An Empirical Study

Patent eligibility is a bit of a mess these days.  Ever since the Supreme Court handed down the Alice v. CLS Bank decision six years ago, the distinction between what might be subject matter that can be patented and what is...more

McDermott Will & Emery

No Bones About It: McRO II Holds Patent Not Invalid and Not Infringed

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a summary judgment finding an asserted patent invalid for lack of enablement while affirming the holding of non-infringement. McRO, Inc. v. Bandai Namco Games America...more

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Patent Eligibility of Computer Implemented Inventions in the US

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At a recent Knobbe Martens and Bugnion SpA Seminar, Vlad Teplitskiy presented on patentable subject matter in the U.S. ...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

2017 Supreme Court and Precedential Patent Cases From the Federal Circuit, With Some Significant Cases from 2016

Arbitration - Waymo v. Uber Technologies, 870 F.3d 1342 (Fed. Cir. 2017) - Waymo sued Uber and others for trade secret misappropriation and patent infringement. Uber contends that Waymo should be compelled to...more

Proskauer - New England IP Blog

Three Years of Alice: Federal Circuit Cases Upholding Patent Eligibility Under Alice Step 1

It has now been over three years since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its transformative patent decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank. During that time, the Federal Circuit has issued only a precious few decisions upholding...more

Knobbe Martens

Federal Circuit Finds Claims Directed to Encoding and Decoding Image Data Patent-Ineligible

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The Federal Circuit recently held in RecogniCorp, LLC v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2016) that claims directed to encoding and decoding image data were not patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. This ruling further...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Recognicorp, LLC v. Nintendo Co. (Fed. Cir. 2017)

Recognicorp, owner of U.S. Patent No. 8,005,303, sued Nintendo for infringement in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. After a transfer to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington and...more

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Analogous Analysis: A Survey of Recent PTAB Decisions Establishing Subject Matter Patent Eligibility

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In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court established the current framework for determining patent-eligible subject matter in Alice. The Alice framework is a two-part test, with step one requiring a determination regarding whether a...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Sections 101 and 112: Eligibility, Patentability, or Somewhere in Between?

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We wrote earlier about the Supreme Court’s renewed interest in patent eligibility and seemingly unintended confusion between the patent eligibility requirements of 35 U.S.C. § 101 and the remaining patentability requirements...more

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Fitbit, Inc. v. AliphCom (N.D. Cal. 2017)

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

Mintz

Software Is Still Patent Eligible

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In recent years, software patents have come under fire from legislation (the American Invents Act) that has generally made patents easier to invalidate, and from court decisions (the Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Year in Review: The Most Popular Blog Posts of 2016

As 2017 begins and IP strategies are being developed for the new year, it is a good time to reflect on what IP issues were prominent in 2016. According to the many readers of Global IP Matters, hot topics included navigating...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

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Post-Alice Section 101 Eligibility Roadmap for Software Inventions

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In the wake of Alice the waters of eligibility under section 101 can be challenging to navigate, and particularly so for those seeking to obtain or enforce software patents. A two-part test for eligibility is the standard,...more

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