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Section 101 Patent Eligibility Roundup: It's Been Too Long

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It's been a while since I last posted, and I apologize for that. (If interested, here's an alert about what's kept me away: a CFAA trial we wrapped up in late July.) But I am back, so let's look at the latest on the Section...more

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Federal Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Patent Claims Directed to Pixel Animation as Ineligible Subject Matter Under 35 U.S.C. § 101

The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of patent claims directed to changing the position of components in an image to create the appearance of movement, i.e., animation. The court agreed that the...more

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Patent Poetry: Federal Circuit: “Improving User Experience” Isn’t Patentable

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The Federal Circuit has affirmed a lower court decision that patent claims for methods and systems for improving how search results are displayed to users are patent-ineligible. The case is IBM Corp. v. Zillow Group, Inc....more

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The Domination of Cybersecurity

Key takeaway: Despite the Supreme Court’s recent pronouncement of patent-eligible subject matter, cybersecurity innovation will remain an active area for intellectual property protection through the patent application and...more

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Patenting AI: How US Patent System Evolves To Keep Up With the AI Revolution

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The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in recent years has been accompanied by a surge in patent filings by AI developers. But like many other emerging technologies before it, AI inventions face patent...more

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Supreme Court on Section 101 Patent Eligibility: Thanks But No Thanks

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The U.S. Supreme Court conferred on two patent eligibility cases last week. And, if you are like me, you did not sleep a wink while anxiously awaiting the Court's decision. But if you're reading this, you likely already know...more

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Patent Directed to Method of Payment Processing in Sales Transactions Found Abstract

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AuthWallet asserted a patent directed to methods and systems for processing financial transaction data against Block. Specifically, the claims outline a method for processing financial transaction data using authorization...more

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Fed. Circ.: Retailer Finder Fee Patent Invalid Under Section 101

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In the case of In re Elbaum, No. 2021-1719, 2021 WL 3923280 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 2, 2021), Saul Elbaum applied for a patent related to selling products on the internet using physical locations, specifically where the internet...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - August 2021 #3

PersonalWeb Technologies LLC v. Google LLC, Appeal Nos. 2020-1543, -1553, -1554 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 12, 2021) In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s judgment on the pleadings that...more

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Patents Directed to a Method for Ranking Online Merchants Withstands Early Section 101 Challenge by the Government

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The plaintiff in Wanker v. United States accuses the government of infringing four patents, all of which relate generally to a method for comparing products and services through the use of various weighting factors to assign...more

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No More Ripples from Pebble Tide; Data Output Patents Found to be Abstract, Invalid

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Over the past year, Pebble Tide LLC has asserted its two patents against an array of companies – from banks and insurance companies to entertainment conglomerates – alleging that the defendants infringe patents related to...more

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Special Report - 2019 IP Law Year in Review - Patents

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2019 was another milestone year in intellectual property law that resulted in hundreds of decisions by the courts and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that will affect your company’s litigation, patent prosecution or...more

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C.D. California: Online Loan Origination Patent Is Abstract and Invalid Under Section 101

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Plaintiff brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California for alleged infringement of U.S. Patent No. 8,548,902, which related to online loan origination services. The defendant moved for...more

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Unpacking The Solicitor General’s Brief In Vanda

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Responding to the invitation from the Supreme Court, the Solicitor General for the United States has filed an amicus brief for the United States in Hikma Pharmaceuticals USC Inc. v. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. Stakeholders...more

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A Patent-Eligible Diagnostic Method Claim

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On Friday I will be speaking at the AUTM Eastern Regional Meeting, on a panel discussing patent eligibility issues for life sciences inventions. My topic relates to what the USPTO refers to as “nature-based products,” but...more

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Federal Circuit Continues Trend of Finding Diagnostic Inventions to Be Patent-Ineligible

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On August 9, 2019, the Federal Circuit issued a public opinion in Genetic Veterinary Sciences, Inc. v. LABOKLIN GmbH & Co. KG, finding claims directed to methods for detecting a genetic marker for a canine hereditary disease...more

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Federal Circuit Agrees Genotyping Method Is Not Eligible For Patenting

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In Genetic Veterinary Sciences, Inc. v. Laboklin GMBH & Co., the Federal Circuit upheld the district court decision that held claims directed to methods for genotyping a Labrador Retriever invalid under 35 USC § 101 at the...more

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Only The Law Is Hazy For CBD Patent Eligible Under Section 101

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In United Cannabis Corp. v. Pure Hemp Collective, Inc., Judge Martinez of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado determined that UCANN's CBD patent was not invalid under 35 USC § 101. The court reached its...more

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Federal Circuit Finds Endo Method Of Treatment Claims Satisfy 35 USC 101

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In Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., the Federal Circuit distinguished method of treatment claims that involve personalized dosing from the claims invalidated in Mayo v. Prometheus, and found them...more

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USPTO Issues Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance and Guidance for Examining Computer-Implemented Functional Claims...

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The USPTO has issued updated guidance for examiners and administrative patent judges (APJs) relating to subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. 101 and examining computer-implemented functional claim limitations under 35...more

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No Ticket to Ride for Transit-Limited Claims

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court ruling that claims directed to the specific field of mass transit were directed to patent-ineligible subject matter under 35 USC § 101 because they...more

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Guest Post: Regnoicorp -- A Miscarriage of Justice Calling for En Banc Reconsideration

Study of the background to Recognicorp, LLC v. Nintendo Co. (Fed. Cir. 2017), the subject of Michael Borella's earlier posting, reveals basis for his concerns about lack of analysis of the detailed disclosure of the...more

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Is there a legislative fix for biotech patents?

By some accounts, we have entered a golden age for innovation in personalised medicine. Through scientific advancements in the study of genetic coding and molecular analysis, it is now possible to screen an individual for...more

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Graphical User Interface Patent Claims Found Eligible

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The Federal Circuit recently found claims to a specialized graphical user interface (GUI) for trading financial securities eligible in Trading Technologies Int’l v. CQG, No. 2016-2016 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 18, 2017). The Federal...more

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Ex parte Itagaki and Nishihara (PTAB 2016)

A great deal of angst has been generated by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision, in Ex parte Itagaki and Nishihara, regarding the panel's application of Section 101 (sua sponte as a new ground of rejection under 37...more

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