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Solicitor General Weighs in on Patent Eligibility Question

The Solicitor General, responding to a call from the Supreme Court for the government’s views, in April filed a brief directed to the proper legal standard for the “abstract idea” exception to patent eligibility under 35...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

District Court Dismisses Infringement Claims Because the Patent Recited a Patent-Ineligible Method for Real-Time Billable Time...

Judge Engelmayer in the Southern District of New York recently granted a motion to dismiss the complaint because the patent-in-suit is directed to patent-ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The patent is directed...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

No More Bites at the Apple to Satisfy Section 101

Ginegar LLC sued Slack Technologies, Inc. for infringing its patents involving instant messaging systems. Judge William H. Orrick previously dismissed Ginegar’s claims for failure to satisfy Section 101 with leave to amend....more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - October 2022 #2

Weisner v. Google LLC, Appeal No. 2021-2228 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 13, 2022) - In its only precedential patent case this last week, the Federal Circuit again revisited the thresholds for disposing of cases under Section 101,...more

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Federal Circuit Affirms Dismissal of “Process Automation” Patent Infringement Suit

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On March 15, 2022, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Eastern District of Texas’s dismissal of a patent infringement complaint because the asserted patent claims were directed to process automation and therefore not eligible...more

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Repifi Vendor Logistics, Inc. v. Inellicentrics, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2022)

There is a theme running through many patent-eligibility disputes that is analogous to baiting-and-switching.  One party has claims that recite an invention.  The other party characterizes those claims at a high level or...more

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Mentone Solutions LLC v. Digi International Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2021)

Mentone sued Digi for alleged infringement of Mentone's U.S. Patent No. 6,952,413. The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware found the claims of the patent to be ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Mentone...more

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Canadian Patent Law 2021: A round-up of interesting developments and court decisions

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2021 saw changes in Canadian patent legislation, and a variety of court decisions addressing rarely interpreted provisions of the Patent Act, early consideration of recently enacted provisions, and new takes on central tenets...more

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Last Week in the Federal Circuit (October 25-29): Taking the Pulse of Another § Decision

While there may have been no public tricks or treats from the Federal Circuit last week, the Court still managed to issue a range of precedential and non-precedential decisions. Below we provide our usual weekly statistics...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Federal Circuitry

Last Week in the Federal Circuit (October 4-8): An “Inventive” Authentication Scheme Takes The Cake Under Alice

Even though last week was argument week, that didn’t slow down the issuance of decisions at the Federal Circuit. Below we provide our usual weekly statistics and our case of the week—our highly subjective selection based on...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

CosmoKey Solutions GmbH v. Duo Security LLC (Fed. Cir. 2021)

CosmoKey asserted U.S. Patent No. 9,246,903 against Duo in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleging infringement.  The District Court found the patent's claims to be ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

On the Nature of Prior Art in the 35 U.S.C. § 101 Inquiry

Diamond v. Diehr, decided by the Supreme Court in 1981, seemed to establish a bedrock principle of statutory construction for patent law.  The Court stated that "[t]he 'novelty' of any element or steps in a process, or even...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Sensormatic Electronics, LLC v. Wyze Labs, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2021)

Sensormatic asserted U.S. Patents 7,730,534, 7,936,370, 7,954,129, 8,208,019, and 8,610,772 against Wyze in the District of Delaware, alleging infringement.  Wyze moved the District Court to dismiss under Rule 12(c), on the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Targeted Advertising Still Patent Ineligible Subject Matter

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that targeted advertising is still an abstract idea and that a system providing targeted advertising must utilize something more than generic features and routine...more

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Federal Circuit: Method of Creating a Floral Arrangement is an Abstract Idea

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In the case of In re Sturgeon, 839 F. App'x 517, 520 (Fed. Cir. 2021), the patent application claimed a method of creating a floral arrangement on an electronic display screen with the following representative claim: A...more

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Stanford’s Computer Models – Inventive for Parents, but Not for Patents

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IN RE: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY - Before Prost, Lourie, and Reyna. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: The specific combination of purely mathematical steps in a...more

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In re Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Fed. Cir. 2021)

The Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) rejecting claims for failure to satisfy the subject matter eligibility standard under 35 U.S.C. § 101, in ex...more

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[Webinar] Coordinating Patent Prosecution in the U.S. and Europe - March 10th, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm ET

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In today's connected global economy, obtaining patent protection in multiple jurisdictions is the best way for companies to protect their IP on a global scale. But every jurisdiction has different patentability requirements...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

How to Successfully Obtain Blockchain Patents

As with other rapidly-evolving technologies, the blockchain space is experiencing a frenzy of patent activity. The data shows that there are 3-4 times as many published applications as there are issued patents for these...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Simio, LLC v. FlexSim Software Products, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2020)

This decision is bad.  Not an American Axle level of bad, but still quite far from good. Simio sued FlexSim in the District of Utah for alleged infringement of its U.S. Patent No. 8,156,468.  FlexSim moved for dismissal on...more

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Claims to Printed Matter Are Patent-Ineligible Only if They Lack an Inventive Concept

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C R BARD INC. v. ANGIODYNAMICS, INC. Before Reyna, Schall, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: Claims that recited printed matter but arguably included an...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

District Court Denied Rule 12(b)(6) Motion Based on Section 101 Because Additional Facts and Claim Construction Would Provide...

While a district court in California remained “skeptical” of the patent eligibility of three computer-implemented patents, the court denied a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The court found that claim...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

On the Patent Eligibility of Graphical User Interfaces: Part I

The evolution of graphical user interfaces parallels the evolution of computing technology itself.  As computers grow more powerful and sophisticated, so does their ability to display cutting-edge representations of...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Stupid § 101 Tricks

If we have learned anything from the last six-and-a-half years of patent eligibility jurisprudence, it is that nobody knows what's going on. Subject matter eligibility is a fundamental requirement for an invention to be...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

District Court Rules DNA Analysis Claims Reciting Mathematical Algorithms Ineligible Under § 101

The District Court for the Northern District of Ohio dismissed Cybergenetics Corp.’s infringement suit after determining that the asserted claims—which recite mathematical algorithms for analyzing data taken from a DNA...more

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