In This Presentation:

- Recent Patent Cases From The Supreme Court

- Medical Device Patent Statistics and Cases

- USPTO Post-Grant Proceedings: Lessons Learned After Two Years

- Excerpt from Recent Cases From The Supreme Court:

Patent Law from Congress -

Patents should be awarded for “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.” (35 U.S.C. § 101)

Supreme Court long ago created an exception:

No patents for “laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas”