In June 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, et al., where it removed the presumption that software operating on standard hardware components could avoid being deemed an...more
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rule, that if enacted, would categorically ban nearly all non-compete agreements, with a very limited exception for non-compete agreements in...more
This article adds to the two-part series published by the Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal in August and September 2018. This third article continues the analysis of decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for...more
This second part of a two-part article discusses four decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit finding subject matter eligibility under step 2 of Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, et...more
Post-Alice, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) is aggressively rejecting software claims under the Alice two-part test, the parameters of which many examiners are still trying to understand. Not...more
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