Signal Processing Claims for Decrypting Encrypted Information Found Patent Ineligible -
Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division ruled that Defendant Apple, Inc. (hereinafter...more
Claims for an Interactive 3D Virtual Environment Found Patent Ineligible -
In the field of computer gaming, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently granted Defendants' Rule 12 motion...more
5/29/2020
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Claims Directed to Capture and Output of Digital Content Held Patent Ineligible -
A few weeks ago, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware granted Defendants' Rule 12 motions in three different cases, each...more
In August 2018, Plaintiffs Ubisoft Entertainment, S.A. and Ubisoft, Inc. (collectively, "Ubisoft") sued Defendant Yousician Oy ("Oy"), alleging that Oy's software products infringed Ubisoft's U.S. Patent No. 9,839,852 (the...more
USPTO Issues CBD Trademark Guidelines in Light of the 2018 Farm Bill: Key Takeaways -
On May 2, 2019, the USPTO released its new guidelines on how it will examine federal trademark applications for CBD products in light of...more
6/6/2019
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Patent practitioners who focus their practice in the high-tech sector have most likely encountered Japanese patent law in one form or another. More often than not, companies at the forefront of technological advancement...more
Claims for Monitoring and Analyzing Suspicious Network Activity Found Patent Eligible -
In a precedential decision issued last week, the Federal Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware's...more
Claims for Dynamically Rating Internet Content Deemed Patent-Ineligible -
In a suit by Plaintiff Symantec Corp. ("Symantec") against Defendant Zscaler, Inc. ("Zscaler"), Symantec alleged that Zscaler's cloud-based security...more
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
Claims for Determining an Orientation of a 3D Pointing Device Using Sensor Data Found to be Patent-Eligible -
Plaintiff CyWee Group Ltd. ("CyWee") sued Defendants Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Samsung Electronics...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
Claims for Keyword-Based Navigation of Hierarchically-Structured Data Found Abstract But Survive Motion to Dismiss -
Plaintiff Guada Technologies, LLC (hereinafter "Guada") sued Defendant Vice Media, LLC (hereinafter "Vice...more
Claim for Scheduling Packet Data Communication Survives Patent Eligibility Challenge in Motion to Dismiss -
Last week, in yet another patent case before Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...more
Claims for Displaying Message Timing Data Found Patent Ineligible -
Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled that claims related to providing time data for messages communicated...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
Cloud Computing Claims Deemed Patent-Ineligible -
This month, in an infringement case against Defendant Amazon, Judge Stark of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware ruled that Plaintiff Kaavo Inc.'s cloud...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
Intelligent Machines - Engines of Intellectual Property Creation? -
Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has become an increasing part of our daily lives. Many of us utilize virtual assistants such as Apple’s Siri and...more
User interface technology at its core enables user interaction with underlying digital systems or other technology. Whether through use of visual elements, speech interaction, touch, or other mechanisms, a well-designed user...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
At the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Patent Policy Conference last month, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Andrei Iancu (at right) gave a keynote address on the role of U.S. patent policy in domestic innovation...more
Claims for Refreshing Phone Display Found Patent Eligible -
Earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that claims related to refreshing a phone's display are patent eligible...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
Virtual Reality Patents Survive Patent-Eligibility Challenge -
Last week, Judge Seeborg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that claims related to virtual reality applications are...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