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McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Dancing with Abstract Ideas: Patent Eligibility in 2025

In June 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l, establishing a now-infamous two-step, judicially-imposed test for patent subject-matter eligibility that narrowed the broad statutory eligibility...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Microprocessor v. Abacus: The Fictional Patent-Eligibility Debate between a Patent Attorney and a Retired Supreme Court Justice

JUSTICE HÄAGEN-DAZS:  Imagine King Tut lounging outside his pyramid, surrounded by gold and bad financial instincts. He's handing out chits left and right, "Good for one unit of gold, redeemable later." He's got an abacus guy...more

Dickinson Wright

[Webinar] Protecting Software Intellectual Property in Electric and Autonomous Vehicle Technologies - November 3rd, 12:00 pm -...

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Technical advancements, in both vehicle electrification and automation, are increasingly focused on software innovations, while the focus on hardware innovations appears to be somewhat diminished. Protecting intellectual...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

With Software Patents and Means-Plus-Function, “Structure” Takes On a New Meaning

Functional Claiming in Software Patents - Software patents are generally directed to a sequence of steps or rules, i.e., an algorithm, performed by a computer programmed to carry out the algorithm. Because algorithms are...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Recursive and Iterative Algorithms in Patent Claims

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Some inventions operate in a recursive or iterative manner. This could be so of a machine that repeats actions or functions on a single article or to produce multiple articles, or operates on data. ...more

Fenwick & West LLP

The Mind as Computer Metaphor: Benson and the Mistaken Application of Mental Steps to Software (Part 5)

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Part V. The Fictional Mental Steps Doctrine Does Not Apply To Programmed General Purpose Computers - The fictional form of the mental steps doctrine is inapplicable to digital computers and computer-implemented...more

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